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DRYLAND
Sara Jaffe's engrossing debut novel, DRYLAND, is a funny, sad, tender, and sophisticated coming-of-age novel that pierces the heart of adolescence, in all of it's complexity, drawing young adult and mature adult readers alike.
It's 1992 in Portland, Oregon, Julie moves through her days in a series of negatives: the skaters she doesn't think are cute, the trinkets 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 girls' 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. Anything could happen when her body hits water.
It's 1992 in Portland, Oregon, Julie moves through her days in a series of negatives: the skaters she doesn't think are cute, the trinkets 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 girls' 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. Anything could happen when her body hits water.
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Published 2015-09-01 by Tin House Books |