angiex 's review for:

How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
4.0

Beautifully written. I liked all of the stories in the collection and I loved more than half of them. I also felt they worked wonderfully together to form the collection.

As noted by many other reviewers, the themes are dark. For me this meant the strength of (burgeoning) character, the glimpses of hope and the character's recognition of the cost of their passivity that were threaded throughout the stories were all the more poignant.