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A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius : A Memoir Based on a True Story

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A book by Dave Eggers

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Author: Dave Eggers

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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One of the year's best books

Jan 2, 2001

by RobertYokoyama
posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More

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I read this book over the hollidays, and I couldn't put it down. This is an unique book about a young man who raises his little brother after losing his parents to cancer so suddenly. Eggers talks about having an alcoholic father he hardly knew. He recounts the emotional experience of scattering his mother's ashes in Lake Michigan. He writes about struggling to have a social life while raising his brother like how guilty he feels leaving his brother with a sitter for the first time. He does all parental things like cooking and going to his brother's open house at school. He recounts the trials and tribulations of being an editor for a fledging 20 something magazine called Might. He writes about his friends and his childhood in vivid detail like the young woman who comes out of a coma after falling from a building. Eggers talks about another friend who attempts to commit suicide by shallowing a bottle of pills. This is a very entertaining book by a talented new writer.

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