How We Are Hungry

by Dave Eggers

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In this "tour de force" (New York Times Book Review), the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The Circle demonstrates his mastery of the short story.

“These tales reinvigorate … the short story with a jittery sense of adventure.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Including the stories:"Another"  
"What It Means When a Crowd in a Faraway Nation Takes a Soldier Representing Your Own Nation, Shoots Him, Drags Him from His Vehicle and Then Mutilates Him in the Dust"  
"The Only Meaning of the Oil-Wet Water"  
"On Wanting to Have Three Walls Up Before She Gets Home"  
"Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance"  
"She Waits, Seething, Blooming"  
"Quiet"  
"Your Mother and I"  
"Naveed"  
"Notes for a Story of a Man Who Will Not Die Alone"  
"About the Man Who Began Flying After Meeting Her"  
"Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly"  
"After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned"
  • ISBN10 1400095565
  • ISBN13 9781400095568
  • Publish Date 11 October 2005 (first published 30 November 2004)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Random House Inc