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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.

[Contains explicit content] For anyone that lived through the 1980s AIDS crisis, watching friends dying like it was the apocalypse, it seems unthinkable that today's students don't know about this recent history. And then, what's on Audible: Dryland by Sara Jaffe takes place in 1992 in Portland, Oregon. Young teenager Julie is unexcited about life until she meets the swim team captain, who is trying to recruit her. It's a dare and a flirtation with many twists and family intrigues.