eggers points out which parts of the book were fictionalized or exaggerated in the course of the book and the preface. one critic has noted that the very title of eggers’ memoir invites a discussion of how the reader is to engage with the book. in this view, the title, as a so-called “allographic paratext”, is seen as an invitation for the reader not to “dismiss the emotionally tinged style as bathos” but rather accept “the premise that this book, in part, is a textualized trauma” and thus the reader is “called upon to be sympathetic to the emotional sincerity found in the book.”