of a drowning accident takes up scuba diving. In "When She is Old and I am Famous," a young woman confronts the inscrutable power of her cousin's beauty. In "The Smoothest Way is Full of Stones," the failure of religious and moral codes—to protect, to comfort, to offer solace—is seen through the eyes of a group of Orthodox Jewish adolescents discovering the irresistible power of their sexuality. How to Breathe Underwater is a New York Times Notable Book, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, and the winner of the Northern California Book Award and Cowan Writers’ Award, Jewish Community Endowment (2006). Julie Orringer's first novel was the winner of the Wallant Award (University of Hartford, 2010), and named a finalist for the James Tait Black Prize (University of Edinburgh, 2011), Orange Prize (2011), Sami Rohr Prize (2011), and the First Novel Prize, Center for Fiction, New York (2010). The Invisible Bridge is the story of a young Hungarian-Jewish student who leaves Budapest in 1937 to study architecture in Paris. There he meets and falls in love with a ballet teacher. The student and ballet teacher are then caught up in the second world war with their families and struggle to survive. It was a New York Times Notable Book (2010) and named a Best Book of 2010 by The San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly. The Flight Portfolio is a novel based on the true story of Varian Fry, an American journalist who, in 1940, went to occupied Europe to help rescue Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust. It received the Association of Jewish Libraries Award (2020), and was named a finalist for the American Library in Paris Book Award (2019). The novel also inspired the forthcoming Netflix series Transatlantic.https://www.thewrap.com/corey-stoll-gillian-jacobs-cory-michael-smith-transatlantic-netflix-cast Translations Bulgarian Nevidimijat Most, trans. Katya Perchinkova, Entusiast, Bulgaria, 2012 French Comment respirer sous l'eau, 2005 Finnish Näkymätön Silta, trans. Kristiina Savikurki, Otava, Finland, 2011 German Unter Wasser atmen, 2005 Die unsichtbare Brücke, 2011, Italian Quando ho imparato a respirare sott'acqua, 2004, Il ponte invisible, trans. Cristiana Mennella and Alessandra Montruccio, Einaudi, Italy, 2012 Dutch Ademhalen onder water, 2004 De onzichtbare brug, 2010, Japanese How to Breathe Underwater, 2006 The Invisible Bridge, trans. Tomoko Kawazoe, Random House Kodansha, Japan 2012 Korean The Invisible Bridge, trans. Kim Moon, Minumsa, Korea 2012 Hungarian Láthatatlan Híd, 2011, Üldözöttek gyüjteménye, Libri Kiado, Hungary, 2020 Norwegian Puste Under