"Virtually flawless.... A tour de force." –
Los Angeles Times "These should be read one at a time, perhaps just before bed as a respite from an especially trying day." –
The New York Times "Colwin is a bard of burgeoning adulthood." –
The New Yorker "If anyone wrote eloquently and magnificently about affairs of the heart, it was Laurie Colwin." –
San Francisco Chronicle "Colwin is ingenious, comedic, and spirited." –
The Boston Globe "A witty, literate and intelligent entertainment, a commodity not so easily come by these days." –
The New York Times "Colwin wrings magic from ordinary lives." –
Entertainment Weekly "I have loved Laurie Colwin's work for forty-some years, all of it, every honest, deep, friendly, funny, heartbreaking, hopeful word." –Anne Lamott, bestselling author of
Almost Everything and
Dusk, Night, Dawn "Colwin had the power to make her readers believe in life's possibilities.... Her books still have that power." –NPR
"I read my first Laurie Colwin book way way back in the 1970s and have adored her ever since: Reading her exuberant prose, her elegant (but not at all stuffy) sentences, I always marvel at her absolute love for her characters in all their foibles and their flaws, and how she urges us to have the same generosity toward them (and ourselves). Basically, reading (and rereading) Colwin's short stories and novels always makes me happy." –Nancy Pearl, co-author of
The Writer's Library "Laurie Colwin's great subject was happiness–whether romantic, familial, domestic, or culinary–and she managed to write about it with both élan and emotional depth.... How wonderful it is that her books are still with us." –
The Christian Science Monitor "[Colwin's] intricate worlds–full of people who lovingly revolve around one another, with occasional pit stops in their kitchens, dining rooms, and local coffee shops–have been a refuge from my own overcomplicated life more times than I can count."–Melanie Rehak,
Bookforum "An infallible recipe for happiness: read as much Laurie Colwin as you can." –Emma Straub, bestselling author of
All Adults Here "A writer whose rare gift it was to evoke contentment, satisfaction, and affection." –
The New Yorker "To read Laurie Colwin, whether her wryly eloquent fiction or her richly detailed nonfiction, is to enter the sensibility of a singular human. Long before there were food bloggers and Bookstagrammers, Colwin understood that strong opinions and witty failures could appeal to readers of all ages and stages." –Bethanne Patrick
"Touching and wise." –
The Village Voice "Colwin writes with such sunny skill, and such tireless enthusiasm.... One reads with fascination the steps by which lovers in one story after another stumble upon their forthright declarations." –Joyce Carol Oates,
The New York Times Book Review "The glittering, generous, delicious world of Laurie Colwin's fiction is a gift and a lodestar. When writers speak of our favorites, our literary godmothers, her name invariably enters the conversation. How thrilling to know that readers new to her will now have the pleasure of discovering her glorious work. We need her voice, her heart, and her paean to joy, now more than ever." –Dani Shapiro, bestselling author of
Inheritance
