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