How to Breathe Underwater
by Julie Orringer
Published for the first time: 9/2/2003
226 pages, Paperback
Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Literature, Book Club, Short Stories, Fiction
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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