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 Yorkâs downtown music scene in the eighties. Back then, he thought she was âthe living nightâall the glamour and potential of a New York night when youâre 25.â Now heâs twice divorced and happy to be aloneâso happy heâs writing a book about it. Then he meets June again. âAnd here she was with a raincoat over the back of the chair talking about getting a divorce and saying sheâs done with relationships. Her ice-calm eyes are the same, the same her glory of curls.â
Jacket Weather is about awakening to loveâdizzying, all-consuming, worldview-shaking loveâwhen itâs least expected. It's also about remaining alert to today's pleasuresâexploring the city, observing the seasons, listening to the guys at the gymâwhile 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 Juneâs 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 Yorkâs downtown music sce...