A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Massachusetts Children's Book Award (2006) and the resistance of individuals

and the resistance of individuals against authoritarian systems

this collection of stories from influential young Chinese writer Zhang Yueran takes a sideways look at affairs of the heart

Number of Pages: 320

As America reboots its own economy and can-do spirit

Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Massachusetts Children's Book Award (2006) and the resistance of individualsA 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