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Julie Orringer

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Born

in Miama, Florida, The United States

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http://julieorringer.com/

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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February 2011

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Julie Orringer is an American author born in Miami, Florida. Her first book, How to Breathe Underwater, was published in September 2003 by Knopf Publishing Group. She is a graduate of Cornell University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney's, Ploughshares, Zoetrope: All-Story, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Best New American Voices, and The Best American Non-Required Reading. She received the Paris Review's Discovery Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, The Yale Review Editors' Prize, Ploughshares' Cohen Award, the Northern California Book Award, and the Anne and Robert Cowan Award from the Jewish Community Endowment Fund. She was the recipient of ...more

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Average rating: 4.06 · 77,516 ratings · 8,107 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Invisible Bridge 4.18 avg rating — 54,571 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Resa i månljus by Antal Szerb, Maria Ortman (Översättare), Julie Orringer (Goodreads Author) (Efterord) 4.21 avg rating — 11,721 ratings — published 1937 — 121 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Can You Feel This? 3.60 avg rating — 8,069 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Flight Portfolio 3.77 avg rating — 7,095 ratings — published 2019 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Breathe Underwater 3.96 avg rating — 6,681 ratings — published 2003 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Granta Book of the American Short Story by Richard Ford (Editor), Eudora Welty (Contributor), Andre Dubus (Contributor) 4.01 avg rating — 408 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers by Vendela Vida (Editor), Tayari Jones (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Chris Abani (Contributor) 3.91 avg rating — 311 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Luna, Phoenix, Queen 4.36 avg rating — 73 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Note to Sixth-Grade Self 4.21 avg rating — 58 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When She Is Old and I Am Famous 3.91 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“And what if I fail?"
"Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.”
― Julie Orringer, The Invisible Bridge

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“I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.”
― Julie Orringer, How to Breathe Underwater

tags: short-story, stations-of-the-cross

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“It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it”
― Julie Orringer, The Invisible Bridge

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Polls

October Side Read Nominations- 1st Poll

Top 5 books move onto the second round.

Salt to the Sea

by Ruta Sepetys

10 votes, 16.4%

84, Charing Cross Road

by Helene Hanff

7 votes, 11.5%

The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

by Nadia Hashimi

7 votes, 11.5%

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

6 votes, 9.8%

The Ex

by Alafair Burke

6 votes, 9.8%

The Bone Clocks

by David Mitchell

5 votes, 8.2%

Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard

by Liz Murray

4 votes, 6.6%

The Invisible Bridge

by Julie Orringer

4 votes, 6.6%

Keeper of the Light

by Diane Chamberlain

3 votes, 4.9%

A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

by Lucia Berlin

3 votes, 4.9%

The Wife's Tale

by Lori Lansens

3 votes, 4.9%

Canada

by Richard Ford

2 votes, 3.3%

Modern Romance

by Aziz Ansari

1 vote, 1.6%

61 total votes

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