Happy All the Time

“A jewel of romantic comedy. . . . A comedy of manners that reminds us that manners are comic and should be enjoyed as such. . . . This giddy courtship novel features Misty Berkowitz, Colwin’s most memorable creation — think Larry David, but with a secretly vulnerable, generous heart.” —The New York Times

“Shimmering, funny. It made everything in my life seem a whole lot better.” —Cosmopolitan

“A pleasure … endless surprises and ultimately boundless joy … It would be difficult not to enjoy it all.” —The New Yorker

“A funny, loving, celebratory book in which everything is perfect.” —The Boston Globe

 “A wise, bighearted book by a wise, bighearted writer. A deft and funny one, too.” —The Washington Post

“Merry and bright and tender, written in exquisitely balanced sentences that taste just right. Comparison with Jane Austen is not out of order.” —New York Post

“Laurie Colwin was the best kind of master: human and humorous, full of wisdom and love. When am I happy all the time? When I have a stack of Laurie Colwin books beside me.” —Emma Straub, bestselling author of All Adults Here

“How is it I hadn’t heard of Happy All the Time until now?  What a breezy, witty, nutty book. It’s charm distilled.” —Maria Semple, bestselling author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette

“An elegant, fresh, funny tale of four people in love. There’s electricity here. . . . Pure delight.” —The Village Voice

“Colwin’s canny Manhattan pastorale strikes me as at least as much fun to read as Sense and Sensibility.” —Newsweek

“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.” —Christian Science Monitor

“Luminous . . . a book that lingers sweetly and hilariously in the memory.” —The Dallas Morning News

“Seriously wise, seriously wonderful, seriously comic—your life will be richer for it.” —Katherine Heiny