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 York’s downtown music scene in the eighties. Back then, he thought she was “the living night—all the glamour and potential of a New York night when you’re 25.” Now he’s twice divorced and happy to be alone—so happy he’s writing a book about it. Then he meets June again. “And here she was with a raincoat over the back of the chair talking about getting a divorce and saying she’s done with relationships. Her ice-calm eyes are the same, the same her glory of curls.” Jacket Weather is about awakening to love—dizzying, all-consuming, worldview-shaking love—when it’s least expected. It's also about remaining alert to today's pleasures—exploring the city, observing the seasons, listening to the guys at the gym—while 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 June’s life and shifts a reader to a glowing nostalgia for the present. " Jacket Weather is a triumph." —Shawn Mishak, Cleveland Scene "[DeCapite] is that rare wordsmith who trades heavily in autobiographical reflections but refuses to succumb to the narcissistic pitfalls of capital-M memoirs . . . [ Jacket Weather ] describes a very NYC courtship, but one that will charm people who get hives at the mention of Woody Allen movies." —Jordan Mamone, Please Kill Me " Jacket Weather . . . captured, like nothing else I’ve read, how it is to talk with someone you love at a certain age in your life in New York City, the city that never stops talking . . . DeCapite is a skilled mimic and chronicler of the sheer poetry of human conversation and you can hear the dialogue, much of which made me laugh out loud." — Ordinary Times "Mike DeCapite has written the New York novel of the moment . . . Like a play, Jacket Weather sheds exposition in preference for immediacy and shows DeCapite as a dramatist of the potentially fateful moments that make up a day . . . It is set to endure as the rejuvenating love story that the city needs." —Zachary Weg, Our Town "DeCapite handles language with a craft possessed by only the most accomplished writers . . . [He] is a noticer and chronicler of the highest order . . . Primarily, this is a book of devotion—to a city of pervasive miracles, yes, but above all to a partner . . . It’s a treat to witness, as if Bogie and Bergman’s affair in Casablanca had worked out." —Greg Masters, Sensitive Skin Magazine "Effortlessly drifting through the years and narrative forms, this is almost a sepia-tinted look back at a man’s life and a past New York. DeCapite is a phenomenally skilled writer . . . The dialogue is rich, believable, and often very funny, and this is a wonderfully unusual meditation on nostalgia and love." — Booklist "Spare and lyrical . . . DeCapite has a poet’s eye for the city’s majestic details, and illustrates how his characters come to see the same things differently over the years . . . A worthwhile meditation." — Publishers Weekly "So very real . . . A sad but sweet song about the uncertainty of middle age and how funny it is when time slips away." — Kirkus Reviews " Jacket Weather describes in exacting detail what daily life looks like when you see it through the lens of romantic love. Every scrap of talk and every sign on the street is irradiated by love—and its step-sibling, anxiety. The book is funny, tender, often exhilarating, and borne aloft by DeCapite's ardent, plainspoken lyricism. You can't stop reading it." —Lucy Sante, author of Low Life and Maybe the People Would Be the Times " Jacket Weather is a beautiful, evocative account of a late-in-life love sprung into being in early twenty-first-century Manhattan, characters tossed forth from the aftermath of the punk rock seventies. Protagonist Mike spins cryptic, poetic observations of his daily life, strikes random and true chords, pen as Telecaster. His plaintive adoration of June, the love of his life, is painted with enduring mystery and great respect. I loved this book.” —Lee Ranaldo, Sonic Youth, author of Road Movies and jrnls80s "I don't think there exists another novel like Jacket Weather . Mike DeCapite has flawless pitch for dialogue and an imagist's eye, and his prose is lucent and uncluttered, but what's really a surprise (and should not be) is this: he's written an almost unbearably tender love story for adults. The days and weeks and seasons and every quotidian detail vibrate with newness and suspense." —Mimi Lipson, author of The Cloud of Unknowing "Mike DeCapite has an eye for deep beauty in the mundane. He writes prose that makes poetry of just walking down the street. What he observes injects a charged current into life’s