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

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.

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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