&;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.