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Mike DeCapite is the author of the novel Through the Windshield, the chapbooks Travel Notes, Sitting Pretty, and Creamsicle Blue, and the short-prose collection Radiant Fog. His novel Jacket Weather was published by Soft Skull Press in October 2021.

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	Jacket Weather 3.47 avg rating — 573 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Through The Windshield by Mike DeCapite (Goodreads Author), Mike DeCapite (Goodreads Author) 4.54 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creamsicle Blue by Mike DeCapite (Goodreads Author), Mike DeCapite (Goodreads Author) 4.47 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Radiant Fog 4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sitting Pretty by Mike DeCapite (Goodreads Author), Mike DeCapite (Goodreads Author) 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Travel Notes really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1995	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Critters by Robert Wallace, Mike DeCapite (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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