NATIONAL BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - A A beautifully ragged laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book (San Francisco Chronicle) that redefines both family and narrative. - From the bestselling author of The Circle. 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. This 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.