Nick Hornby meets Patti Smith, Mean Streets meets A Visit From the Goon Squad in this quintessential New York City story about two people who knew each other in the downtown music scene in the 1980s, meet again in the present day, and fall in love.
Mike knew June in New YorkтАЩs downtown music scene in the eighties. Back then, he thought she was тАЬthe living nightтАФall the glamour and potential of a New York night when youтАЩre 25.тАЭ Now heтАЩs twice divorced and happy to be aloneтАФso happy heтАЩs writing a book about it. Then he meets June again. тАЬAnd here she was with a raincoat over the back of the chair talking about getting a divorce and saying sheтАЩs done with relationships. Her ice-calm eyes are the same, the same her glory of curls.тАЭ
Jacket Weather is about awakening to loveтАФdizzying, all-consuming, worldview-shaking loveтАФwhen itтАЩs least expected. It's also about remaining alert to today's pleasuresтАФexploring the city, observing the seasons, listening to the guys at the gymтАФwhile time is slipping away. Told in fragments of narrative, reveries, recipes, bits of conversation and snatches of weather, the book collapses a decade in Mike and JuneтАЩs life and shifts a reader to a glowing nostalgia for the present.
Nick Hornby meets Patti Smith, Mean Streets meets A Visit From the Goon Squad in this quintessential New York City story about two people who knew each other in the downtown music scene in the 1980s, meet again in the present day, and fall in love.
Mike knew June in New YorkтАЩs downtown music sce...