A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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by Eggers, Dave | Illinois Published 09/07/2026 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom as part of the Picador Collection series Paperback | 496 pages198 x 133mm | 332gA f inalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionA number one New York Times BestsellerA 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.‘Virtuosic’ – The New York Times‘Prodigious’ – The Irish Times‘Shocking’ – The London Review of Books‘Moving’ – The Washington Post Show more