... chronicles the author's stewardship of his younger brother Christopher ("Toph'), following the cancer–related deaths of their parents.
The book was a commercial and critical success – praised for its wild, vibrant prose. The New York Times described it as "big, daring [and] manic–depressive". Time magazine named it as "the Best Book of the Year', and The Times listed it as the 12th best book of the decade.
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