How to Breathe Underwater
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Nine brave, wise, and spellbinding stories make up this award-winning debut. In "When She is Old and I Am Famous" a young woman confronts the inscrutable power of her cousin's beauty. In "Note to Sixth-Grade Self" a band of popular girls exerts its social power over an awkward outcast. In "Isabel Fish" fourteen-year-old Maddy learns to scuba dive in order to mend her family after a terrible accident. Alive with the victories, humiliations, and tragedies of youth, How to Breathe Underwater illuminates this powerful territory with striking grace and intelligence.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 226 pages
- ISBN: 9781400034369 / 1400034361
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Sometimes I freeze in front of the canvas, full of the knowledge that if I keep painting, sooner or later I will fail her Julie Orringer, How to Breathe Underwater Sarah had a saying: Der gleichster veg iz ful mit shtainer." "What's it mean?" "The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones. Julie Orringer, How to Breathe Underwater This was what dying meant, Helena thought-everything that had been you,leaving. Julie Orringer, How to Breathe Underwater
Rating/reviewing short story collections is always a bit hard, which is why I dont have that much to say about this one - it was just really good. About half of the stories I absolutely loved, the other half I didnt find quite as incredible. Though the prose stayed beautiful and very observant throughout the collection. Orringer is... Orringer writes with confidence, but without much passion. These nine stories are perfectly constructed, and the author has a keen ear for natural dialogue, but with few exceptions, I was not moved by the characters or their dilemmas. In each, whether the voice is first or third person (even, in the case of Note to Sixth-Grade Self,... You know, the writing was really good, I must say that. But the subject matter and the characters were SO messed up! If you liked Six Feet Under (on tv) then this is for you. Just weirdness in real life, I guess. For me the stories were haunting, though, and I had trouble sleeping well if I read it while in bed...To be honest, I just...
