Book Review: No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

No One is Talking About This
by Patricia Lockwood (Lockwood)

This book is in two parts, the first being about a woman and her experience of becoming an influencer and really speaks to how weird and abstract the “portal” (the internet) can be. The second half of the book is a crash landing back IRL (in real life) when the woman’s sister starts having complications with her pregnancy.

 

This book both gave me faith in humanity and destroyed me. The author used a lyrical, sideways approach in her first half of the book, that is still slightly present in her second half but the second half is a more present, concrete narrative that I believe was intentional. Fabulous book that provides commentary on internet life vs IRL.

 

(If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try The Candy House by Jennifer Egan, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris, or True Love by Sarah Gerard.)

 

( publisher’s official No One is Talking About This web page ) | ( Patricia Lockwood on Twitter )

 

Recommended by Rio B.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service

 

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