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Bluets

★★★★☆  book

Bluets

Two hundred and forty numbered fragments on the colour blue, written by a woman caught between her own heartbreak and a beloved friend’s paralysis. By every law of literature it ought to be insufferable; instead it is the most lapidary thing I have read about wanting something that is already gone.

what it left me with

Grief without a shape will drown you. Grant it an architecture, a colour, a ledger, a numbered devotion, and suddenly it becomes a weight you find you can carry.

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