"The story is at once funny, tender, annoying and, yes, heartbreaking…an epic about family and how families fracture and fragment and somehow, through all the tumult and upset, manage to endure….A virtuosic…maic-depressive stew of book that noisily announces the debut of a talented-yes, staggeringly talented-new writer."
- MICHIKO KAKUTANI, The York Times.
"Eggers is an original new voice, the real thing. When you read his extraordinary memoir you don't laugh, then cry, then laugh again; you somehow experience these emotions all at once-and powerfully."
- DAVID REMNICK
1. Through the small tall bathroom window, etc.
2. Please look. Can you see us, etc.
3. The enemies list, etc.
4. Oh I could be going out, sure
5. Outside it's blue-black and getting darker, etc.
6. When we hear the news at first
7. Fuck IT. Stupid show, etc.
8. We can't do anything about the excrement
9. Robert Urich say no. We were so close
10. Of course it's cold
11. Black Sands Beach is