Next of Kin

Chloe’s apartment is the novel’s primary setting, and its present arrangement and history support Chloe’s character arc and the ideas present in What Makes a Family. Before the novel’s beginning, Chloe shared the apartment with Emily and Lane. After the other girls moved out, Chloe barely kept in touch, believing she’d always been on the outside of the friendship and not as close with either girl as Emily and Lane were with each other. When Emily and Lane come back into Chloe’s life through the course of the story, Chloe suddenly realizes the three of them were and are much closer than she ever realized. Rekindling and growing their relationship makes Chloe’s apartment a symbol of how much Chloe has changed and how important it is to find the people she wants to keep in her life. In Chloe’s eyes, Emily and Lane go from people she once roomed with to actual members of her found family, showing the types of bonds living together and sharing lives can forge.

Chloe’s apartment continues to be where families are built during the novel. When Warren and

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