How to Breathe Underwater
 

How to Breathe Underwater (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Julie Orringer

The stories in How to Breathe Underwater, Julie Orringer's debut collection, swim with tragedies both commonplace and horrific. A fall from a treehouse, an ailing mother, a near-drowning, a premature baby, a gun--each is the source of a young woman's coming-of-age, which we witness through Orringer's lovely, driving prose. The author possesses an uncanny ability to capture scenes and complex... (read more)

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Can't help but be biased by this collection of short stories, as Julie was my student in a creative writing class while she was in high school and one of the editors of Full Circle, the literary arts magazine for which I was the advisor. These are wonderfully written stories I highly recommend for all to read. "The Isabel Fish," is particularly poignant for me, having experienced the tragic event from which it sprang. If you are a teacher of middle or high school students, this is one to...

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