A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Massachusetts Children's Book Award (2006) has led a life packed

has led a life packed full of adventures with animals and the people who love them

several murders

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also continues to be one of our most influential Christian thinkers

It is a celebration of love in all its forms

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Massachusetts Children's Book Award (2006) has led a life packedA book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight year old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together. A