A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionA number one New York Times BestsellerA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college student who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. This exhilarating debut, at once hilarious and wildly inventive, reinvented the memoir for the twenty-first century. 'Brilliant' - The Guardian`Virtuosic' - The New York Times`Prodigious' - The Irish Times`Shocking' - The London Review of Books`Moving' - The Washington Post