Title: A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Description: From Wikipedia: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (ISBN 0-330-48455-9) is a memoir by Dave Eggers released in 2000. It chronicles his stewardship of younger brother Christopher "Toph" Eggers following the cancer-related deaths of his parents.

The book was an enormous commercial and critical success, reaching number one on The New York Times bestseller list and being nominated as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. Time magazine and several newspapers dubbed it "The Best Book of the Year". Critics praised the book for its wild, vibrant prose, and it was described as "big, daring [and] manic-depressive" by The New York Times. The book was chosen as the 12th best book of the decade by The Times
Subjects: Death, Brothers, Family, Bildungsromans, American Authors, Parents, Psychological aspects, Bildungsromane, Domestic fiction, Biography, Large type books, Death, psychological aspects, Authors, biography, Young men, Families, Terminally ill parents, Medicine in Literature, Eggers, dave, Parents--death--psychological aspects, Brothers--biography, Coming of age, Parents--psychological aspects, Css faculty reading list: bret johnson, Ct275.e37 a3 2001, 973.92/092, B, 18.06, Hu 9800, Biography and autobiography, Bereavement, Siblings, Child rearing, Cooking, Quick and easy cooking
Places: California, San Francisco, Berekeley, Florida
People: Dave Eggers
Time periods: 20th century