num_pages: 375
description: Dave Egger's parents died from cancer within a month of each other when he was 21 and his brother, Christopher, was seven. They left the Chicago suburb where they had grown up and moved to San Francisco. This book tells the story of their life together.
language: English
title: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
titlecomplete: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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: Pan MacMillan