How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

In story after story, Orringer captures moments when the dark contours of the adult world come sharply into focus: Here are young people abandoned to their own devices, thrust too soon into predicaments of insoluble difficulty, and left to fend for themselves against the wide variety of human trouble. In “The Smoothest Way Is Full of Stones,” the failure of religious and moral codes–to protect, to comfort, to offer solace–is seen through the eyes of a group of Orthodox Jewish adolescents discovering the irresistible power of their burgeoning sexuality. Ai-ee-duh: two cries of pain and one of stupidity”). In “When She Is Old and I Am Famous,” a young woman confronts the inscrutable power of her cousin’s beauty (“Aïda.

In “The Isabel Fish,” the sole survivor of a drowning accident takes up scuba diving. In “Pilgrims,” a band of motherless children torment each other on Thanksgiving day. All of them learn, gloriously if at great cost, how to breathe underwater. Julie Orringer’s characters–all of them submerged by loss, whether of parents or lovers or a viable relationship to the world in general–struggle mightily against the wildly engulfing forces that threaten to overtake us all. The nine powerful stories that comprise this volume all focus on female main characters, ranging in ages from their preteens to early adulthood5().Nine fiercely beautiful, impossible-to-put-down stories from a young writer who has already received immediate worldwide attention. Julie Orringer’s first book, the collection of stories, How to Breathe Underwater, exhibits the same unsettling beauty and emotional intensity that define her splendid novel, The Invisible Bridge.

She is the winner of The Paris Review ’s Discovery Prize and the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Stanford University, Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Her novel, The Invisible Bridge, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Fiction. Julie Orringer is the author of the award-winning short-story collection How to Breathe Underwater, which was a New York Times Notable Book.* Are the talented girls in 'Note to Sixth-Grade Self,' 'When She Is Old and I Am Famous,' and 'The Isabel Fish' more able to cope with their circumstances than the less obviously accomplished characters in 'Care' or 'Stars. > CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD EBOOK > CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD EBOOK <<<<

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