Jacket Weather
A Novel

Quotes

“Themes of love and aging propel DeCapite’s spare and lyrical nove.” Publishers Weekly

“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

“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

“In this roman à clef—minus the clef—I can clearly hear the music of the NYC streets; feel the L train as it hums; and can smell something cookin’—a modern Moveable Feast.” Clinton Heylin, author of The Double Life of Bob Dylan

“Mike DeCapite has an eye for deep beauty in the mundane. He writes prose that makes poetry of just walking down the street…Reading Jacket Weather is like listening to the world reveal its secrets.” Robert Gordon, author of It Came from Memphis

“Poetic and compulsively readable, Jacket Weather invents a new genre—call it lyrical realism…A story of cities, survival, adaptation, desire, and a celebration of the small pleasures we invent and discover to offset unavoidable loss.” Chris Kraus, author of After Kathy Acker

“DeCapite has flawless pitch for dialogue and an imagist’s eye, and his prose is lucent and uncluttered.” Mimi Lipson, author of The Cloud of Unknowing

“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 stepsibling, anxiety. The book is funny, tender, often exhilarating, and borne aloft by DeCapite’s ardent, plainspoken lyricism. You can’t stop reading it.” Luc Sante, author of Low Life

“Mike DeCapite’s books all feel like movies to me. The characters, and the rooms and seasons they inhabit, are clear before my eyes.” Kelly Reichardt, director of First Cow