Breathing Underwater
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.92 (561 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1555839649 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 249 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Lily's preteen undercurrent of awareness that she is not like the other girls prompts her to determine that she's in love with her friend Rae; the two practice kissing one another with Rae's caveat that one has to pretend to be a boy. The plotting in this debut novel is by-the-numbers, but Vickers's prose is polished and the characters are sharply drawn. Lily's mother is especially toxic—she watches while Lily nearly drowns early in the book—and grows more demented as the narrative progresses. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly Coming out young is tough enough, but poor Lily has the misfortune of doing it in a setting as gothic and claustrophobic as anything Faulkner could have dreamed up: Chattahoochee, Fla., where the largest employer is a mental institution. Lily keeps her lesbian yearnings mostly under wraps, but an encounter with another young woman gets her i
One roots for Lily as one does for Huck Finn. With lyrical prose, Lu Vickers gives voice to Lily’s inner soul, and in turn reveals how universal our needs and desires are.. In Breathing Underwater, she investigates, with keen insight, the legacies of guilt, the intricacies of the mother-daughter relationship, and the complexities of budding sexuality. A stunning, rich, and haunting debut." --Julianna Baggott, best-selling author of Girl Talk, The Madam, and Lizzie Borden in LoveIn 1970s Chattahoochee, Florida, where the main employer is a mental institution, it’s sink or swim for Lily. Her work can be, at once, poetic, sharp, hilarious, and relentlessly moving. When her mama, a former beauty queen who once dreamt of being Miss Florida, takes Lily and her siblings fishing one morning, Lily nearly drowns while her mother looks on, “weighing her gains against her losses.” Lily proves to be a survivor, which she will need to prove again and again, as she struggles to stay afloat amidst her mother’s slow ment
in English from Florida State University, where she was a Kingsbury Fellow. Her short stories and ess. She has twice been awarded Florida's Individual Artist Grants for fiction, and received a $10,000 Astrea Award for fiction. Lu Vickers received her Ph.D
"Breathing Underwater" according to Connie Baily. Saying Lu Vickers is a very descriptive writer is like saying Water is wet. Her story envelops you with the smells, sounds and sights of North Florida. Emotions are as smothering as swamp water.Connie Baily. 5 star novel Pink Poet What a beautifully-crafted novel: a distillation of Southern small town yearning, dreams,humor,darkness. Layers of unexpected twists and turns run through the writing; images of both the underwater and above ground life add depth. I highly recommend this lyrical, smooth novel-. "Chattahoochee" according to T. Tyrone. For those of us who grew up in small town North Florida, this fine portrait of life in '60-'70's Chattahoochee awakened mixed memories. Very clear and pungent prose.