{"product_id":"how-to-breathe-underwater-9781400034369","title":"How to Breathe Underwater","description":"A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003enotable book and winner of The Northern California Book Award for Best Short Fiction, these nine brave, wise, and spellbinding stories make up this 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, \u003cb\u003eHow to Breathe Underwater\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eilluminates this powerful territory with striking grace and intelligence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"These stories are without exception clear-eyed, compassionate and deeply moving.... Even her most bitter characters have a gift, the sharp wit of envy. This, Orringer's first book, is breathtakingly good, truly felt and beautifully delivered.\"--The Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJULIE ORRINGER is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebest-selling author of two award-winning books: \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel, and \u003ci\u003eHow to Breathe Underwater\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of stories. Her latest book is \u003ci\u003eThe Flight Portfolio.\u003c\/i\u003e She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the MacDowell Colony, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50670650687762,"sku":"9781400034369","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8f2af650-c0d3-44f3-a05d-a8b1e4daa8a1.jpg?v=1733785962","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/how-to-breathe-underwater-9781400034369","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}