''How We Are Hungry'' is a collection of short stories by

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, originally published by

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in 2004. The hardcover first edition includes the following pieces:

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," originally published in ''

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'' *"The Only Meaning of the Oil-wet Water," originally published in '' Zoetrope All-Story'' *"On Wanting to Have Three Walls up Before She Gets Home," originally published in ''The Guardian'' *"Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance," originally published in ''

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'' in a slightly different form as "Measuring the Jump" *"She Waits, Seething, Blooming," originally published in ''The Guardian'' *"Quiet" *"Your Mother and I," originally published in '' h2s04'' *"Naveed," originally published in ''The Guardian'' *"Notes for a Story of a Man Who Will Not Die Alone," originally published in another form in ''

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'' *"About the Man Who Began Flying After Meeting Her," originally published in ''The Guardian'' *"Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly," originally published in '' McSweeney's #10'' *"There Are Some Things He Should Keep to Himself" *"When They Learned to Yelp" *"After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned," originally published in ''

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"There Are Some Things He Should Keep to Himself," which consists solely of five blank pages, is not included in the paperback edition.

Footnotes

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