While Orringer's stories, mostly set in contemporary America, were concentrated, subtle and microcosmic, her novel is both a love story writ large and an almost epic ride through the history of Europe just before World War II. Her readers have been waiting seven years for her follow-up, and her new novel, The Invisible Bridge, is almost everything that How to Breathe Underwater was not. The nine short stories in the collection were all perfectly executed - poignant, sad and at times dryly funny, Orringer's characters were sometimes close to beaten down, but never stopped searching, even when they weren't sure what they were looking for.
Orringer quickly became a young literary celebrity, and her book, deservedly, found a home on several best-of-the-year lists. Julie Orringer released her first book, How to Breathe Underwater, in 2003, and critics fell in love.
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