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• Pulitzer Prize Nominee for General Nonfiction (2001)
• Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2000)
• Borders Original Voices Award for Nonfiction (2000)
• Puddly Award for Memoir (2001)

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.

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