Clearly Now, the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Other Trips - ECW Press

Clearly Now, the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Other Trips

Hastings, Eli

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  • “A drug, romance, and adventure-filled exploration … a story that is both thoroughly of its time and timeless in theme.” — Seattle Times

    From ill-advised quests for narcotics to dramatic summer road trips, this memoir of a relationship with a self-destructive woman is “as elemental, lyrical, and cringe-inducing a love story as they come.” Kirkus Reviews

    Suspenseful, darkly funny, and devastating, this is Eli Hastings’s true story of his troubled, decades-long relationship with his friend Serala. At family events, Serala wore demure saris and ate delicately from plates of curry. But elsewhere, she wore a lip ring, designer shades, and a cowboy hat. She regularly drank frat boys under the table, slept fewer than five hours a week, and placed herself in a series of dangerous situations for another bag of heroin.

    Serala’s complex personality and seemingly haphazard choices are brought to vivid life, from the search for drugs in Mexican border towns to unplanned 50-hour road trips across the continent. Although she died tragically at age 27, Hastings writes the story of her dark journey with hope and tenderness in this unique memoir of friendship and loss.

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  • Eli Hastings lives in Seattle, Washington. He is completing an internship and MA in family therapy. He is a poetry facilitator with youth at King County Juvenile Detention and holds an MFA from the UNC at Wilmington. His first book, Falling Room, was published in the American Lives Series at the University of Nebraska Press in 2006.

  • Published: May 2013

    ISBN: 9781770410770

    Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 in.

    Pages: 264

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Reviews

“Some relationships make us question whether we’ve loved enough, others whether we’ve loved too much. But Seattle author Eli Hastings grapples with an even more perplexing issue in his latest book: Did he love the right way? His new memoir, ‘Clearly Now, the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Other Trips,’ is a drug, romance and adventure-filled exploration of that gut-wrenching question, a story that is both thoroughly of its time (post-grunge Seattle) and timeless in theme.” — Seattle Times

“As elemental, lyrical, and cringe-inducing a love story as they come.” — Kirkus Reviews