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daniellemohlman 's review for:
How to Breathe Underwater
by Julie Orringer
A few days after Theresa recommended this collection to me, we found ourselves sitting in the lunchroom talking about unhappy endings. I prefer my reality stimulating and challenging and I’ll take my fiction the same, but I usually prefer there to be devastation and pain. Something unrequited, something lost. Something learned. When I told Theresa this (and, admittedly, in crasser terms — I said something about liking sad endings) she took the opportunity to recommend Orringer’s collection a second time. I was already halfway through at that point.
How to Breathe Underwater is the mature perspective of every mortifying high school experience played by five strings and a timba. It’s every revenge fantasy gone wrong, it’s the eccentricities of the outcast in the moment before descent. If you want to feel like you’re drowning in words and thoroughly enjoying it, this is the book.
How to Breathe Underwater is the mature perspective of every mortifying high school experience played by five strings and a timba. It’s every revenge fantasy gone wrong, it’s the eccentricities of the outcast in the moment before descent. If you want to feel like you’re drowning in words and thoroughly enjoying it, this is the book.