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Book Review By Kara Thomas
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

This is a memior of a few years in the life of Dave Eggers. He loses both of his parents within a month of each other and is left to raise his youngest brother, Toff. He moves with his sister, Beth, to California where they live first in a house on a hill. But at the end of the summer they move to Berkley. Dave struggles to raise Toff since he has never so much as babysat before. Beth does help, but Dave is the primary caregiver. Every now and then Dave gets tired of where him and Toff are living and decide to move. So they live all throughout California. Half way through the book there is an interview with and MTV employee to see if Dave has been given a sopt on The Real World. Dave claims that that part of the book is necessary to the development of the story. After that he seems to be finally gaining control of his life.


Plot & Themes
Kids growing up/acting up? Yes
Kids: - orphan story
Family, love Yes
Special relationship with - brother
Period of greatest activity? - 1950+

Subject of Biography
Gender - Male
Profession/status:
Ethnicity - White
Nationality - American

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 4 ()
Misc setting - resort/hotel
Century: - 1980's-Present

Writing Style
Book makes you feel? - thoughtful - like laughing
Graphic sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - -
If this is a kid's book: - Age 16-Adult
Pictures/Illustrations? - None
How much dialogue in bio? - significantly more descript than dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life? - 0-25% of book
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