A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Recommended by Ev Williams, Amy Chua, and 2 others. See all reviews

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'When you read his extraordinary memoir you don't laugh, then cry, then laugh again; you somehow experience these emotions all at once.'

"Well, this was when Bill was sighing a lot. He had decided that after our parents died he just didn't want any more fighting between what was left of us. He was twenty-four, Beth was twenty-three, I was twenty-one, Toph was eight, and all of us were so tried already, from that winter. So when something would come up, any little thing, some bill to pay or decision to make, he would just sigh, his eyes tired, his mouth in a sorry kind of smile.
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Ev Williams Co-Founder/Twitter, CEO/MediumRecommends this book

Amy Chua His mother and father died within five weeks of each other, and at 21 he finds himself a single parent in charge of his eight-year-old brother. (Source)


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