Mike knew June in New York's downtown music scene in the eighties. Now he's twice divorced and happy to be alone—so happy he's writing a book about it. Then he meets June again. 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.