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"It's 1992, and the world is caught up in the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the Balkan Wars, but for fifteen-year-old Julie Winter, 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 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,…
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4 editions- Paperback · English · 2021Cipher Press · 9781916355347
- Other · English · 2021Cipher Press · 216 pages · 9781916355354
- Other · English · 2016Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio · 9781531806323
- Other · English · 2015216 pages · 9781941040133
Interpersonal relationsFictionHigh school studentsTeenage girlsWomen swimmersFiction, coming of agePortland (or.), fictionAmerican literature