Clearly Now, the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Other Trips
"In electric, adventurous prose, Eli Hastings'Clearly Now, the Raintells the story of loving one wrecked soul, and the rich, dark wonder of the joys to be found along the way."  —Paul Lisicky, author,Famous BuilderandLawnboy"Eli Hastings will make you fall in love—and then he will punch through your ribcage and rip your heart out—and by the end of his moving memoir,Clearly Now, the Rain, you will thank him for it."  —Benjamin Percy, author,Refresh, RefreshandThe Wilding"[Serala's] story is as biting and claustrophobic as Nicolas Cage's in Leaving Las Vegas, but it is drawn with great affection. Hastings became both her friend and her lover, and he is brutally honest in his assessments of her flaws and of their relationship. . . . As elemental, lyrical and cringe-inducing a love story as they come." —Kirkus Reviews(March 2013)“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.”—Tyrone Beason,The Seattle Times