The provided text consists of excerpts from Dave Eggers' novel, "You Shall Know Our Velocity!" The review snippets at the beginning offer critical perspectives, describing the book as entertaining, insightful, and a "messy, funny book." A brief author biography highlights Eggers' role as the founder of McSweeney's and introduces this work as his first novel. The remaining sections are narrative passages from the book itself, following the protagonist, Will, and his friend Hand on an unusual and chaotic global journey, interspersed with flashbacks and internal monologues that reveal Will's grief over a friend named Jack, his complicated past, and his struggle with a traumatic injury to his face. The story portrays their attempts to distribute a large sum of money and their philosophical reflections on life, memory, and the human condition as they travel.

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