![]() ![]() In the story “Stars of Motown Shining Bright,” it takes a combination of sex, religion and some pistol swivelling to get two teenage girls back to their suburban normalcy. However, keeping one’s composure doesn’t necessarily result in impassive behaviour. ![]() ![]() How to Breathe Underwater is a collection of nine short stories that explore how members of the female sex retain their sanity in life’s overwhelming situations. Familiarity breeds contempt, unless it’s interesting - which is precisely what Julie Orringer’s novel is. Though the media tries its best to deliver the freshest story or the juiciest gossip, it does get tiring to read of things that will never happen to us, or about things that happen to us all the time. Besides that endangered group of individuals who will have an easier time getting through the Pearly Gates, if the rest of us could read of our sins and struggles in broadsheet or tabloid, we’d see the decline of a lot more media empires. Fame seems to magnify all that is wrong in our society and tends to make the sins of celebrities the exceptional cases they’re not. ![]()
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