After his parents die, Dave Eggers finishes college and then moves to Berkeley with his little brother. Together they pretend to be parent and child, while eschewing cooking, cleaning, bill-paying, and neighbor-chatting. Instead, they prefer to wrestle in public and pelt each other with breakfast fruit. A highly personal look at an unconventional family, this memoir is also a dead-on account of the hoopla surrounding the Generation X hype of the early 1990s -- with Eggers in the middle of it as magazine editor, newspaper columnist, and momentary (and self-parodying) generational spokesperson. As might be expected from the cofounder of the acclaimed satirical magazine Might and the much-heralded new literary journal McSweeney's, Eggers has written a darkly comic anti-memoir which is highly entertaining and thoroughly unconventional. It's deeply self-conscious and self-deprecating and also daringly lyrical; it's at once very dark, very funny, full of razor-sharp satire while also brimming with heart and passion.