Title: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 2000/2001
530 pages
Audiobook + paperback.
Eggers captures the manic/anxious response to complex grief in a mostly-memoir that is evocative of the Snowden episodes of Catch-22 mashed together with the last chapter of Ulysses. I found it unreadable on the page, but almost unbearable (in a good way) as an audiobook, capably read by Dion Graham in a naturalistic and exhausting manner. I wasn't put off by the titring meta-self-scrutiny, though it tired me and I'm glad I read other work by Eggers first or I might not have done so. Bonus: I learned (from Wikipedia, not this book) that Dave and Toph write the delightful Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey books, notably Your Disgusting Head.
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