A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Massachusetts Children's Book Award (2006) As America reboots its own

As America reboots its own economy and can-do spirit

before she exploded)

Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story

also continues to be one of our most influential Christian thinkers

and the resistance of individuals against authoritarian systems

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Massachusetts Children's Book Award (2006) As America reboots its ownA 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