A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Summary
Dave Eggers

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Overview

This memoir of Dave Eggers recounts the life a young man in his early twenties suddenly faced with the death of both parents by cancer and finding himself the main caretaker of his eight year old brother Toph when other older siblings are unable to help. A satirical emotional roller coaster, the trials and tribulations of this young man as he fights to create his own life in magazine publishing and to mature into a responsible adult will live on in the reader's memory long after the book is closed.