![]() Ai-ee-duh: two cries of pain and one of stupidity"). In "When She Is Old and I Am Famous," a young woman confronts the inscrutable power of her cousin's beauty ("Aida. In "The Isabel Fish," the sole survivor of a drowning accident takes up scuba diving. In "Pilgrims," a band of motherless children torment each other on Thanksgiving day. All of them learn, gloriously if at great cost, how to breathe underwater. Julie Orringer's characters-all of them submerged by loss, whether of parents or lovers or a viable relationship to the world in general-struggle mightily against the wildly engulfing forces that threaten to overtake us all. ![]() ![]() Nine fiercely beautiful, impossible-to-put-down stories from a young writer who has already received immediate worldwide attention. ![]()
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