How We Are Hungry

Dave Eggers

Dec 2007 · Sold by Vintage

About this ebook

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"

About the author

DAVE EGGERS is the author of many books, among them The Circle, The Eyes and the Impossible, The Monk of Mokha, A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Museum of Rain. He is the cofounder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing and tutoring center which has inspired dozens of similar nonprofit organizations around the world, and the founder of McSweeney's, an independent publisher. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is the recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award for Education, and the American Book Award.