Dryland

Dryland
Sara Jaffe
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 216pg
18 Mar 2021 UK
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9781916355347
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It' s 1992 in Portland, Oregon. Fifteen-year-old Julie Winter moves through her days as if underwater - watching skaters through the constant rain, detached from her best friend' s crushes, listening to the same B-side REM song on repeat. The rest of the world is caught up in the AIDS crisis, the war in Yugoslavia, and grunge. But to Julie it' s all background. No one at home talks about her older brother, a once-champion swimmer who could be living in Berlin, or could be anywhere. And although she spends her time searching for pictures of him in the pages of Swimmer' s World magazine, she' d never considered swimming herself. Until Alexis, captain of the swimming team, tries to recruit her. What starts as a flirtation and an infatuation becomes a chance to join in with the world, find out what really happened to her brother, or finally let him go. Yearning, stifled, and sharp, Dryland is an anti-coming out novel that captures gauzy queer exploration at its quietest and its most loud.
"Be still my gay grunge heart" - Beth Ditto "Sara Jaffe' s Dryland is the perfect indie-rock love song, an anthem for lonely 90s queer kids-a little melancholy, a little surly, a little dirty. " - Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl "Remarkable. It' s realism, but its realism brushes ever so deftly against the allegorical, making the novel shimmer, part diary, part dream" - Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts "A brilliant, beautiful, and evocative first novel, full of historical and experiential details that I had never quite articulated to myself and was so grateful and happy to find written down. Sara Jaffe is a treasure. " - Elif Batuman, The Idiot "A gorgeous, layered, meticulous, clamoring, beating heart of a thing. " - Sara Marcus, Girls to the Front "Moving sideways with its weight of secrets, this novel never strikes a false note"- Kirkus
Sara Jaffe is a writer, musician, and educator living in Portland, OR. Her short fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared or are upcoming in publications including Catapult, Fence, BOMB, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, as well as the anthology Liberating the Canon She co-edited The Art of Touring (Yeti, 2009), an anthology of writing and visual art by musicians drawing on her experience as guitarist for post-punk band Erase Errata.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781916355347
Published: 18 Mar 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cipher Press
Publisher: Cipher Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 216

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