Out on 09 July 2026
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Paperback
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09 July 2026
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
A number one New York Times Bestseller
A 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
Details
09 July 2026
496 pages
9781035060276
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
“Eggers is an original new voice, the real thing. When you read his extraordinary memoir you don't laugh, then cry, then laugh again; you somehow experience these emotions all at once - and powerfully”David Remnick
“The force and energy of this book could power a train”David Sedaris
“Is this how all orphans would speak – "I am at once pitiful and monstrous, I know" – if they had Dave Eggers's prodigious linguistic gifts? For he does write wonderfully, and this is an extremely impressive debut”John Banville, The Irish Times
“A virtuosic piece of writing, a big, daring, manic-depressive stew of a book that noisily announces the debut of a talented – yes, staggeringly talented – new writer”Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
