A review by mcomer
Passion and Affect by Laurie Colwin

5.0

A lovely collection of short stories; each is like a little jewel. The characters in these fourteen stories wander through life, confusedly looking for love or certainty. They tend to the mildly eccentric and introverted, with plenty of odd details, unusual jobs, and strange situations. Everyone is searching for something, and they each encounter the strangeness of other people as well as truly odd happenings and settings. There's an air of melancholy around the stories, but it's a lovely kind of bittersweet. I also enjoyed the scenes of New York around 1970, which already seems like a different world. I treasured these stories and can definitely recommend them for gentle reflections on life's weirdness.