A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Condition:Well Read Set against the backdrop of

Set against the backdrop of Japan's changing seasons and narrated with a rare gentleness and striking humour

A fairy tale character meets his first girlfriend after a gap of many years

soul mates and lovers

The Way Up to Heaven

but not his trust

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Condition:Well Read Set against the backdrop ofA 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