{"product_id":"how-to-breathe-underwater-paperback","title":"How to Breathe Underwater - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulie Orringer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003enotable 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, \u003cb\u003eHow to Breathe Underwater\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eilluminates this powerful territory with striking grace and intelligence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"These stories are without exception clear-eyed, compaassionate 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 \u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNine 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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulie Orringer is the author of the award-winning short-story collection \u003ci\u003eHow to Breathe Underwater\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book. Her novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Bridge, \u003c\/i\u003ewas a finalist for the 2010 National Jewish Book Award in Fiction. She is the winner of \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e's Discovery Prize and the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Stanford University, and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn, where she is researching a new novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 12, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44328321777766,"sku":"9781400034369","price":28.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/M0hUR0FBWEFFck1JcGtReUl2ZUtDdz09.webp?v=1768305065","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/how-to-breathe-underwater-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}