How to Breathe Underwater

Nine brave, wise, and spellbinding stories make up this award-winning 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 scuba dive in order to mend her family after a terrible accident. Alive with the victories, humiliations, and tragedies of youth,How to Breathe Underwaterilluminates this powerful territory with striking grace and intelligence.

Julie Orringer is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Cornell University, and was a Stegner Fellow in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Ploughshares, The Pushcart Prize anthology, and Zoetrope: All-Story. She is thirty years old and lives in San Francisco. From the Hardcover edition.

Pilgrims	p. 3
When She Is Old and I Am Famous	p. 23
The Isabel Fish	p. 47
Note to Sixth-Grade Self	p. 77
The Smoothest Way Is Full of Stones	p. 91
Care	p. 123
Stars of Motown Shining Bright	p. 145
What We Save	p. 173
Stations of the Cross	p. 195
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