Julie Orringer Reading @ Pegasus Books Downtown February 24, 2006

Julie Orringer Reading

Friday, February 24

8:00pm

Free

Local author, Julie Orringer, will read from How to Breathe Underwater

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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 also the author of the short story collection, How to Breathe Underwater, and a contributor to The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers.

ABOUT 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 Underwater illuminates this powerful territory with striking grace and intelligence.

PRAISE FOR HOW TO BREATHE UNDERWATER
"The harsh landscape in which Orringer's characters dwell corresponds to the fierce beauty of her writing. Even the grimmest of these stories conveys, along with anguish, a child's spark of mystery and wonder."
-The New York Times

"Pure gems, rollicking along with scintillating prose and surety.
Just when you think they will stop-and lesser writers would stop-they keep going with inexorable momentum."
-Ploughshares

Pegasus Books Downtown
2349 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley
510-649-1320

Shattuck Ave. @ Durant

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510-649-1320
http://www.pegasusbookstore.com