![]() This, Orringer’s first book, is breathtakingly good, truly felt and beautifully delivered. Even her most bitter characters have a gift, the sharp wit of envy. “These stories are without exception clear-eyed, compassionate and deeply moving…. Alive with the victories, humiliations, and tragedies of youth, How to Breathe Underwater illuminates this powerful territory with striking grace and intelligence. In “Isabel Fish” fourteen-year-old Maddy learns to scuba dive in order to mend her family after a terrible accident. In “Note to Sixth-Grade Self” a band of popular girls exert their social power over an awkward outcast. ![]() ![]() In “When She is Old and I Am Famous” a young woman confronts the inscrutable power of her cousin’s beauty. A New York Times notable book and winner of The Northern California Book Award for Best Short Fiction, these nine brave, wise, and spellbinding stories make up this debut. ![]()
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