“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.