Envy the Rain
By Jamie Boud
3/5
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An honest and intimate portrayal of human tragedy depicting how life's twists and turns can disfigure, so grotesquely, that which was once wholesome and pure.
From the unforgiving streets of New York, to the lush Irish countryside, through rainy Amsterdam and a callous Paris, Envy the Rain is a picturesque and melancholy novel about the misadventures of 38 year-old Drew, a talented but misguided artist, as he tries to pick up the pieces after the disastrous end to his first and only real relationship. When Drew learns that Andie, his girlfriend of eighteen years, has been cheating on him, his life implodes. Surely there were warning signs, as Andie, a fashion designer turned stripper, descended into a world of drinking and debauchery, but it's the discovery of her three-year affair with a FDNY firefighter that's the final smashup. Simultaneously jaded and nave, narrating his odyssey of self-discovery as if confiding in his best friend, Drew begins his foray into dating at an age when many people feel they should be done looking. Reformed strippers, American expatriates, Parisian socialites, internet dates and New York fashionistas, we want every woman Drew meets to be the "one" - but in the end, it's Drew alone who must become the hero of his own story.
Jamie Boud
Congenial misanthrope, former assistant to the late, great Stephen Sprouse, with a BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design. Jamie Boud currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Breakup Novel for the Broke up“Do you think you’re depressed?” “No,” I said. “Not depressed. Not anymore. Just a little lost…still just a little lost.”Envy the Rain might drag for you if you're not into literary fiction and so intense character/relationship focus and development, but I enjoyed it for that reason. It's a really good capture of our untethered-ness, the unmooring and driftless nature of being in general (when we are lost), due to a context like a break-up...with someone we've been with for almost 20 years no less...that we shouldn't have been with to begin with.I liked the fact that it reads very "clean", the irony of its innards being a total mess; there were some typos, but it was edited well, and presented very "cleanly", in segments, each chapter reflecting a new woman, a new country, a new kind of beginning at the same time a new kind of lostness. I also thought it was pretty cool the little twists here and there, and how we begin at the end of a relationship, but how it journeys toward the beginning simultaneously, how everything started, when everything went wrong: we see the real truth. It's fiction (I think), but I often wished that he (the character Drew) made it clear to Andie that it was actually his fault. I thought it kind of cruel how he 'let' her continue to blame herself like that, with the issues she already had. All in all, it's an oxymoron good break-up novel.