How We Are Hungry
Author: Dave Eggers
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….Read More
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