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Book Review of A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius : A Memoir Based on a True Story

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius : A Memoir Based on a True Story
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"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 seven-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."