Jacket Weather

<b>Nick Hornby meets Patti Smith <i>Mean Streets</i> meets <i>A Visit From the Goon Squad</i> 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&#160;and fall in love.</b><br><br>Mike knew June in New York&#146;s downtown music scene in the eighties. Back then he thought she was &#147;the living night&#151;all the glamour and potential of a New York night when you&#146;re 25.&#148; Now he&#146;s twice divorced and happy to be alone&#151;so happy he&#146;s writing a book about it.&#160;Then he meets June again. &#147;And here she was with a raincoat over the back of the chair talking about getting a divorce and saying she&#146;s done with relationships. Her ice-calm eyes are the same the same her glory of curls.&#148;<br><br><i>Jacket Weather </i>is about awakening to love&#151;dizzying all-consuming worldview-shaking love&#151;when it&#146;s least expected.&#160;It's also about remaining alert to today's pleasures&#151;exploring the city observing the seasons listening to the guys at the gym&#151;while time is slipping away.&#160;Told in fragments of narrative reveries recipes bits of conversation and snatches of weather the book collapses a decade in Mike and June&#146;s life and&#160;shifts a reader to a glowing nostalgia for the present.