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.
When that longed-for child arrives, it transforms the Parkers\' lives in a way that is as unexpected as it is rapturous..
Alongside her best friend, Edie, Jane Louise patiently waits to become pregnant, wondering if a baby will provide a sense of rootedness that still seems to elude her.
After the wedding, she returns to work at a small and tony publishing house whose finances are in disarray.
In her late thirties, Jane Louise Parker has just married a man whose native decency leaves her almost breathless at her good fortune.
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 and beloved voices. -- 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.
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
