How to Breathe Underwater-Fast Shipping

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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. In “WhenShe is Old and I Am Famous” a young woman confronts the inscrutable power of hercousin’s beauty. In “Note to Sixth-Grade Self” a band of popular girls exert theirsocial power over an awkward outcast. In “Isabel Fish” fourteen-year-old Maddy learnsto scuba dive in order to mend her family after a terrible accident. Alive with thevictories, humiliations, and tragedies of youth,
How to Breathe Underwater illuminatesthis powerful territory with striking grace and intelligence.

“These stories are without exception clear-eyed, compassionate and deeply moving…. Even her most bitter characters have a gift, the sharp wit of envy. This, Orringer’s first book, is breathtakingly good, truly felt and beautifully delivered.”—The Guardian