A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Author: Dave Eggers

Illinois

Published on 9 July 2026 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Picador Collection' series.

Paperback | 496 pages
198 x 133 | 332g

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionA number one New York Times BestsellerA 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