![]() ![]() Whereas in real life Eggers has put much of the money he made off his bestselling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius into a new youth literacy venture in San Francisco called 826 Valencia, in the novel the main character decides to give his money away to whoever catches his fancy as he travels. The story is not, Eggers says, autobiographical. The amount of money is more than he knows what to do with, and he is not comfortable keeping it. ![]() The novel, which is titled You Shall Know Our Velocity, sends two good friends on a trip around the world. ![]() Metroactive Books | 'You Shall Know Our Velocity'ĪLTHOUGH, AT THE TIME of this writing, Dave Eggers' new novel was still on a boat somewhere waiting to "clear customs and be processed," enough of it has appeared elsewhere, and Eggers has given enough interviews, to permit wild speculation. ![]()
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