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How to Breathe Underwater
by Julie Orringer
How to Breathe Underwater contained nine stories about girls who struggle through changes in their life. Just like the title, the narrative in this book gave off the feeling of diving underwater, with all the smooth ripples of water caressed your skin, creating a calm atmosphere around you but at the same time, if you were down long enough, it would suffocate you and take your breath away.
I love how the girls in these stories are flawed--an addict, an obese, a fundamentally intolerant, a no-longer-virgin-at-fifteen, etc--but they are brave girls who navigating around life in a stride and without whining, no matter how hard their problems are.
All nine stories are soooo good it's hard to pick favorite. But I think I love The Isabel Fish more than the others. It's about Maddy who tried to battle her trauma after the accident that took her brother's girlfriend, Isabel's life while at the same time bracing the accusation from others, even her brother, about her "selfishness" of surviving herself without trying to help Isabel in the tragic accident. I love how calm she is responded to all of those, battling her own trauma without her brother's support and all the while understand where his brother's bitterness comes from.
Reading these stories somehow will make you feel proud of these girls, where many girls will whine and protest--and they have the right, too!--but they keep on walking with so much mature recognition on how the world works around them. So much worth to read if you somehow wants some, like, spiritual reading about growing up.
I love how the girls in these stories are flawed--an addict, an obese, a fundamentally intolerant, a no-longer-virgin-at-fifteen, etc--but they are brave girls who navigating around life in a stride and without whining, no matter how hard their problems are.
All nine stories are soooo good it's hard to pick favorite. But I think I love The Isabel Fish more than the others. It's about Maddy who tried to battle her trauma after the accident that took her brother's girlfriend, Isabel's life while at the same time bracing the accusation from others, even her brother, about her "selfishness" of surviving herself without trying to help Isabel in the tragic accident. I love how calm she is responded to all of those, battling her own trauma without her brother's support and all the while understand where his brother's bitterness comes from.
Reading these stories somehow will make you feel proud of these girls, where many girls will whine and protest--and they have the right, too!--but they keep on walking with so much mature recognition on how the world works around them. So much worth to read if you somehow wants some, like, spiritual reading about growing up.