Laurie Colwin

"Laurie Colwin's beautiful final book, A Big Storm Knocked It Over, is funny and moving and rich with complicated happiness--a love story for anyone who tends to overthink things, a comic novel about trying to find a place in the world." -- Maile Meloy, author of Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It In her fifth and final novel, acclaimed author Laurie Colwin explores marriage and friendship, motherhood and careers, as experienced by a cast of delightfully idiosyncratic Manhattanites. At once a hilarious social commentary and an insightful, sophisticated modern romance, A Big Storm Knocked It Over stands as a living tribute to one of contemporary fiction's most original voices.

A Big Storm Knocked It Over

Lynn

Lovely storytelling about life in a NYC setting. I didn’t particularly see a theme in this book; friendship, anxiety, motherhood and desire seem to pop up more frequently but I wouldn’t pinpoint one as the main event. I think I missed a point to it and therefore it didn’t strike something in me worthy of more stars. However, it is a lavish story about the flow of life and how it can take you expected places, but how its mundane-ness can be beautiful in its own right.

In her fifth and final novel, acclaimed author Laurie Colwin explores marriage and friendship, motherhood and careers, as experienced by a cast of delightfully idiosyncratic Manhattanites. At once a hilarious social commentary and an insightful, sophisticated modern romance, A Big Storm Knocked It Over stands as a living tribute to one of contemporary fiction's most original voices.

A Big Storm Knocked It Over

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