A NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"No One Is Talking About This reaches for the sublime, online and
off...Lockwood is a modern word witch, her writing splendid and sordid
by turns." --New York Times Book Review
"Wow. I can't remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book.
What an inventive and startling writer...I'm so glad I read this. I
really think this book is remarkable." --David Sedaris
From a formidably gifted writer (The New York Times Book Review), a
book that asks: Is there life after the internet?
As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been
elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the
world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new
language and etiquette of what she terms the portal, where she grapples
with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now
dictating her thoughts. When existential threats--from climate change
and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an
epidemic of loneliness--begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the
portal's void. An avalanche of images, details, and references
accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony,
post-everything. Are we in hell? the people of the portal ask
themselves. Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?
Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: Something has gone
wrong, and How soon can you get here? As real life and its stakes
collide with the increasingly absurd antics of the portal, the woman
confronts a world that seems to contain both an abundance of proof that
there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of
evidence to the contrary.
Fragmentary and omniscient, incisive and sincere, No One Is Talking
About This is at once a love letter to the endless scroll and a
profound, modern meditation on love, language, and human connection from
a singular voice in American literature.
