How We Are Hungry - Stories

Dave Eggers - Pulitzer Prize finalist for A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and author of What Is the What and The Circle, among other books - demonstrates his mastery of the short story. Here are fourteen 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; and After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned...