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Sara Jaffe's engrossing debut novel, Dryland, is a smart coming-of-age novel that graphs the murky waters of adolescence. Anything can occur when Julie hits this inflatable water. It's 1992, and the planet is swept up in the HIV/Products epidemic and the Balkan Wars, but for Julie Winter, 15, the news headlines is noises. In Portland, Oregon, Julie goes through her days in a series of negatives: the skaters she doesn't think are pretty, the Guatemalan back pack she doesn't buy at the art fair, the umbrella she won't carry despite the incessant rainwater. Her family life is routine and restrained, and no one talks about Julie's older sibling, a one-time Olympic hopeful swimmer who now lives in self-imposed exile in Berlin. Julie hasn't 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 sibling or to finally let him go.
