Why They Cried

Why They Cried

<div>Whether it's a report from the real Cannes or a young couple discovering that reading Jacques Derrida aloud can lull their child to sleep, Jim Hanas finds the strange in the everyday and the everyday in the strange. <i>Why They Cried</i> answers its own question and the answer is funnier than you think.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div> <br /> "Reminiscent of George Saunders and James Thurber, <i>Why They Cried</i> is a great collection of modern tales." <b>-Hannah Tinti, author of <i>The Good Thief</i> and co-founder of <i>One Story</i> magazine</b><br /><br />"Jim Hanas has a remarkable talent for imagining and crafting uncanny little worlds that make me vaguely nervous. And yet I never want to leave." <b>-Rob Walker, co-founder of Significant Objects</b><br /><br />"A tender and smart assembly of fiction about people trying to communicate -- with each other, the world -- and all the ways they fail. Fail better, fail beautifully."<b> -Fiona Maazel, author of <i>Last Last Chance</i></b>