Happy All The Time--Laurie Colwin

Sometimes you just get sucked into rereading things, and you wonder what you saw in them the first time. I doubt Colwin's got a place in the canon, despite her popularity. Maybe the chick lit canon. her short stories are populated by the shallowest of creations. Her characters have actions assigned to them as opposed to springing from interior motivation, and the story inevitable serves as a showplace for Colwin's whimsical stylings.