"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 and beloved voices.
In her late thirties, Jane Louise Parker has just married a man whose
native decency leaves her almost breathless at her good fortune. After
the wedding, she returns to work at a small and tony publishing house
whose finances are in disarray. 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. When that
longed-for child arrives, it transforms the Parkers' lives in a way that
is as unexpected as it is rapturous.
