Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius, A by Dave Eggers; 2000. Hardcover.

A book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. 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 a debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a story of the love that holds a family together.