Join the HCSF Reading Group to discuss A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
In-Person Meeting
Sunday, November 16, 2025
4:30-6:00 pm Pacific
In-Person, San Francisco
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Registration ends Friday, November 14
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers 2001 427 pages
Pulitzer Prize finalist for General Non-Fiction
This is the moving memoir (with fictionalized sections) of a high school senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer, inherits his eight-year-old brother, and moves from Illinois to Berkeley. This exhilarating debut manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together. Of local interest: Eggers went on to found an SF-based publishing house and two magazines (McSweeney Press, Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, and The Believer) as well as two non-profits for writing tutoring and college admissions assistance (826 Valencia, Scholar Match, both of which are now national with many locations).
Questions about our meetings or how we choose our books?
Contact:
Kirsten Miclau
HCSF Reading Group Organizer
readinggroup@harvardclubsf.org
Cover image: Penguin Random House