Dryland (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781941040133)

It's 1992, and the world is caught up in the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the Balkan Wars, but for Julie Winter, 15, the news is noise. In Portland, Oregon, Julie moves through her days in a series of negatives: the skaters she doesn't think are cute, the Guatemalan backpack she doesn't buy at the craft fair, the umbrella she refuses to carry despite the incessant rain. Her family life is routine and restrained, and no one talks about Julie's older brother, a one-time Olympic hopeful swimmer who now lives in self-imposed exile in Berlin. Julie has never considered swimming herself, until Alexis, the swim team captain, tries to recruit her. It's a dare, and a flirtation--and a chance for Julie to find her brother, or to finally let him go.

Author: Sara Jaffe
ISBN-10: 1941040136
ISBN-13: 9781941040133
Publisher: Tin House Books
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2015
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2015
Library Journal 07/01/2015 pg. 80
Publishers Weekly 07/13/2015
Entertainment Weekly 08/21/2015 pg. 106
New York Times Book Review 09/20/2015 pg. 30
School Library Journal 10/01/2015 pg. 112
New Yorker (The) 11/23/2015 pg. 112
School Library Journal 02/01/2016 pg. 109