A heartbreaking work of staggering genius

About “A heartbreaking work of staggering genius”

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (ISBN 0-330-48455-9) is a memoir by Dave Eggers published in 2000. It details his experience of raising his younger brother Christopher "Toph" Eggers after both of their parents died from cancer. The book was a major commercial and critical success. It reached number one on The New York Times bestseller list and was nominated as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. Time magazine and several newspapers named it "The Best Book of the Year." Critics praised its energetic and vivid writing style. The New York Times described it as "big, daring [and] manic-depressive." The book was also selected as the 12th best book of the decade by The Times.