From Wikipedia: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (ISBN 0-330-48455-9) is a memoir by Dave Eggers released in 2000. It chronicles his stewardship of younger brother Christopher "Toph" Eggers following the cancer-related deaths of his parents.
The book was an enormous commercial and critical success, reaching number one on The New York Times bestseller list and being nominated as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. Time magazine and several newspapers dubbed it "The Best Book of the Year". Critics praised the book for its wild, vibrant prose, and it was described as "big, daring [and] manic-depressive" by The New York Times. The book was chosen as the 12th best book of the decade by The Times
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- Death
- Brothers
- Family
- Bildungsromans
- American Authors
- Parents
- Psychological aspects
- Bildungsromane
- Domestic fiction
- Biography
- Large type books
- Death, psychological aspects
- Authors, biography
- Young men
- Families
- Terminally ill parents
- Medicine in Literature
- Eggers, dave
- Parents--death--psychological aspects
- Brothers--biography
- Coming of age
- Parents--psychological aspects
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- Biography and autobiography
- Cooking
- Quick and easy cooking
- Bereavement
- Siblings
- Child rearing
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