diff --git a/pandas/io/parquet.py b/pandas/io/parquet.py
index 5847730f9f984a..b9ff665f2d6357 100644
--- a/pandas/io/parquet.py
+++ b/pandas/io/parquet.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ def __init__(self):
 
         try:
             import pyarrow
-            from pyarrow import parquet
+            import pyarrow.parquet
         except ImportError:
             raise ImportError("pyarrow is required for parquet support\n\n"
                               "you can install via conda\n"
@@ -33,15 +33,14 @@ def __init__(self):
                               "\nor via pip\n"
                               "pip install pyarrow\n")
         self.api = pyarrow
-        self.parquet = parquet
 
     def write(self, df, path, compression=None, **kwargs):
         table = self.api.Table.from_pandas(df)
-        self.parquet.write_table(
+        self.api.parquet.write_table(
             table, path, compression=compression, **kwargs)
 
     def read(self, path):
-        return self.parquet.read_table(path).to_pandas()
+        return self.api.parquet.read_table(path).to_pandas()
 
 
 class FastParquetImpl(object):