A review by bella_cavicchi
Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life by Amy Key

emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

ARRANGEMENTS IN BLUE was, for lack of a more perfect word, stunning. I repeatedly found myself swept up in a passage, convinced that Keys had taken the words straight from my own brain. I don’t long for romantic love in the same way that she does—that is to say, I love being single and can envision my life without a romantic partner—but I nevertheless found solace in her reckoning with the many ways in which society is (unfairly) shaped around coupledom. I share her desire for a re-centering of life around love, community, and intimacy in their many glorious platonic forms. 
 
If I have one complaint, it’s that the Joni Mitchell framing feels a bit of a stretch. But that is a small gripe in an otherwise impressive prose debut. 
 
I loved, I cried, I now recommend. One to read. 
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