<DIV><I>How We Are Hungry</i> is a gripping, lyrical, and always intensely soulful group of stories written over the past four years. Though they range from a doomed Irish setter's tales of running and jumping ("After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned") to a bitterly comic meditation on suicide and friendship ("Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance"), the stories share a haunting and haunted sense of mortality. Though full of bursts of levity and humor, the book is deeply informed by the troubled times in which it was written. <I>How We Are Hungry</i> includes many never-before-published stories, along with a number of pieces that first appeared in magazines, both well known (<I>Zoetrope</i>, <I>The New Yorker</i>) and small and independent (<I>h2s04</i>, <I>Ninth Letter</i>). All previously published stories have been significantly revised. The urgency and experimentalism of Eggers's earlier work are still present, but are brought to a new level of precision and craft, injecting fresh life into traditional forms. Narratives are often linear, told by distinct and varied voices, and settings stretch from Egypt to Interstate 5.</div>