Dimensions
153 x 234 x 30mm
This is an extremely self-conscious memoir in which Dave Eggers writes about pain in the only honest way available to him - with finite jest and fictionalisation.
At the age of 22, Eggers became both an orphan and a "single mother" when his parents died within five months of one another of unrelated cancers. In the ensuing sibling division of labour, Eggers is appointed unofficial guardian of his 8-year-old brother, Christopher. The two live together in semi-squalor, decaying food and sports equipment scattered about, while Eggers worries obsessively about child-welfare authorities, molesting babysitters, and his own health. His child-rearing strategy swings between making his brother's upbringing maniacally fun and performing bizarre developmental experiments on him.
