Review: Cynthia Zarin on Laurie Colwin and Shirley Hazzard—Love Trouble

For some people, the years between when they learn how to read and, say, leave home, consist of reading. To others, that idea is perplexing. I was married for a time to a man whose childhood was vivid with incident: capsizing boats, burying treasure, writing “I will not leave my seat” in grammar school, and then being glued to his seat by the nuns when …