GUC novel paperback A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Dave Eggers's new book, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," is part autobiography, part postmodern collage, a novelistic "memoir-y kind of thing" that tells the sad, awful, tragic story of how the author's mother and father died within weeks of each other and how he became a surrogate parent to his 8-year-old brother Pulitzer Prize Finalist