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Julie Orringer

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in Miama, Florida, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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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: 4.07 · 76,136 ratings · 7,935 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Invisible Bridge 4.18 avg rating — 54,011 ratings — published 2010 — 61 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) 4.22 avg rating — 10,907 ratings — published 1937 — 119 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? 3.62 avg rating — 7,571 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 — 6,940 ratings — published 2019 — 18 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 3.95 avg rating — 6,611 ratings — published 2003 — 28 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 — 407 ratings — published 2007 — 8 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 — 4 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 4.19 avg rating — 57 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
	Transatlantic: Based on a true story, utterly gripping and heartbreaking World War 2 historical fiction 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — 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

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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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APRIL 2011 BITCHES' CHOICE READ

Please vote on the poll below to select your choice for April's Bitches' Choice Read. Poll ends Friday.

by Julie Orringer
A World War II saga, unfolding from a little-explored area of the Holocaust.

7 votes 53.8%

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

by Tom Franklin
The riveting story of two boyhood friends, torn apart by circumstance, who are brought together again by a terrible crime in a small Mississippi town.

6 votes 46.2%

13 total votes

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