Clearly Now, the Rain

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, decade-long relationship with his friend Serala. At family events, Serala wore saris and ate delicately from plates of curry. But elsewhere, she wore a lip ring, designer shades, and a cowboy hat; would regularly drink frat boys under the table;