A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Author: Dave Eggers
When you read his extraordinary memoir you don’t laugh, then cry, then laugh again; you somehow experience these emotions all at once.'”Well, this was when Bill was sighing a lot. He had decided that after our parents died he just didn’t want any more fighting between what was left of us. He was twenty-four, Beth was twenty-three, I was twenty-one, Toph was eight, and all….Read More
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