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Dave Eggers | cancer

Now In Paper

by Lori Stacy

A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS
By Dave Eggers, Vintage, $14
If you haven’t yet read Dave Eggers’ original, moving memoir of raising his younger brother after both parents succumb to cancer, the paperback’s release leaves you no excuses for missing one of the most critically acclaimed books of 2000. —



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