description: 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 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.A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is an instant classic that will be read for decades to come.
language: English
title: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story
titlecomplete: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story
genres: Fiction, American, Humor, Literature, Adult, Novels, Contemporary, Biography Memoir, Literary Fiction, Unfinished
ratings_count: 179618
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Guardian First Book Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Borders Original Voices Award
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Puddly Award
category: Memoir
publisher: Simon & Schuster