I just heard that Dave
I just heard that Dave Eggers’s older sister Beth had committed suicide last November. The two had publicly disagreed over how Egger’s had portrayed her role in raising their youngest brother Toph after the Eggers children were orphaned, in his memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Straggering Genius. But I don’t think that’s why it happened.
Man, that is so sad. I haven’t always agreed with how Dave Eggers handled his sudden surge of fame but he is a colleague in this wacky business, a friend-of-a-friend, a fellow San Franciscan and a human being. And I don’t wish that kind of heartbreak on anybody.