How to Breathe Underwater

Name: How to Breathe Underwater
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Julie Orringer
ISBN: 9781980032366

Author: Julie Orringer

Narrator: Catherine Ho, Nicole Wood

Unabridged: 8 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/08/2019

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

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 "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 exert their 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kim

I can’t really express how much this book affected me. I was thinking I might just skip the review thingy and just leave it as ‘holy shit’ and be done with it. Of course, I can’t do that. It’s been 3 days since I finished it and I find myself going back and rereading lines and calling up scenes. Why......more

Goodreads review by Carmen

So. The overarching themes of this book seem to be: - Children should be listened to and paid attention to. Children are adults' links to the real world; a grounding force that is there to stabilize adults if they bother to involve themselves in their children's lives and pay attention to the detail......more

Goodreads review by Lisa

Collection of lovely short stories about children and adolescents. Very dark themes. They brought up a lot of emotions for me. Long after reading this book, I found myself thinking of certain of the stories. Each story is complete; she really knows how to write short stories well.......more