A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - A Memoir Based on a True Story (Electronic book text)

"Exhilarating....Profoundly moving, occasionally angry, and often hilarious...."A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" is, finally, a finite book of jest, which is why it succeeds so brilliantly" ("The New York Times Book Review").

"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together.