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sarahjjs 's review for:
How to Breathe Underwater
by Julie Orringer
Some of these really hit a nerve with me. Isobel Fish is probably one of the best short stories I have read.
Pilgrims and What We Save really captured cancer - you don't really understand how bad it is or what it means, all you see is people become less or who they were. And they don't come back. Care and Note to a Sixth-Grader Self were beautiful. The last story Stations of the cross was incredible.
I don't think it's going to translate well to men though. The stories dealing with the youngest girls were the most influential for me while the stories dealing with girls in their twenties were probably too close to my current outlook on life for me to appreciate it with a clouded nostalgic tone - maybe I'll try those again in ten years.
Pilgrims and What We Save really captured cancer - you don't really understand how bad it is or what it means, all you see is people become less or who they were. And they don't come back. Care and Note to a Sixth-Grader Self were beautiful. The last story Stations of the cross was incredible.
I don't think it's going to translate well to men though. The stories dealing with the youngest girls were the most influential for me while the stories dealing with girls in their twenties were probably too close to my current outlook on life for me to appreciate it with a clouded nostalgic tone - maybe I'll try those again in ten years.