How to Breathe Underwater

How to Breathe UnderwaterBy: Julie Orringer 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

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Clara gets a premonition that’s nothing but trouble

this is a sympathetic but objective portrait of a great but fallible man

they discover the key to their spy assignment: they have to stop a heist

and we can grasp the pleasure of what it means to be alive

A dueling pistol discovered at the scene and the damning testimony of a witness both point to one man: Sebastian St

nearly certain-to-fail escape from the ice—one that would either etch their names in history or doom them to a terrible fate at the ocean’s bottom

Amanda knows she can

So begins Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities

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to the colossal squid's eyes that shine in the dark