A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave EggersRead about another entry on the list.
If the title hasn’t convinced you, let me try: a lightly fictionalised memoir, this book explores the impact on 21-year-old Dave Eggers’ life when he abruptly becomes both guardian and father figure to his little brother, Toph, following the sudden deaths of their parents. Within it Dave learns to be a parent while learning to be a man, trying to develop his own life while constantly preoccupied with his duty to Toph, via a dynamic narrative including Q&A sections, lists and interjections, and a Nick Hornby–esque melding of humour and poignancy.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is among Andy Abramowitz's seven books about the lies that bind siblings together and the Daily Telegraph's one hundred books that defined the noughties.
--Marshal Zeringue
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