This is a very original and interesting book. It could have been a simple memoir of a young man coping with the deaths of his parents and caring for his younger brother; but Eggers does more, by describing the process of writing the memoir and ridiculing it even as he's doing it. You have to read it to appreciate how clever this gets, especially when Eggers shows that he realizes it's clever, and ridicules that as well. By turning the traditional standard memoir into a thing of odd and hilarious beauty, Eggers has shown he is the leading creative voice of his generation -- he really should be writing fiction. The equivalent of AHWOSG in novel form might be Asher Brauner's Love Songs of the Tone-Deaf, less experimental but equally funny and equally "now". Tremendous stuff!.