A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
A number one New York Times Bestseller

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college student who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. This exhilarating debut, at once hilarious and wildly inventive, reinvented the memoir for the twenty-first century.

'Brilliant' - The Guardian
'Virtuosic' - The New York Times
'Prodigious' - The Irish Times
'Shocking' - The London Review of Books
'Moving' - The Washington Post