<p>This promises to be is a classic book for our times about what it feels like to live and think online.</p>.<p>A woman known for her viral social media posts travels the world speaking to her adoring fans, her entire existence overwhelmed by the internet — or what she terms ‘the portal’. Are we in hell, the people of the portal ask themselves. Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?</p>.<p>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 increasing absurdity 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<br />deluge of evidence to the contrary.</p>.<p>Irreverent and sincere, poignant and delightfully profane, No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood is at once a love letter to the infinite scroll and a meditation on love, language and human connection from one of the most original voices of our time.</p>
<p>This promises to be is a classic book for our times about what it feels like to live and think online.</p>.<p>A woman known for her viral social media posts travels the world speaking to her adoring fans, her entire existence overwhelmed by the internet — or what she terms ‘the portal’. Are we in hell, the people of the portal ask themselves. Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?</p>.<p>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 increasing absurdity 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<br />deluge of evidence to the contrary.</p>.<p>Irreverent and sincere, poignant and delightfully profane, No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood is at once a love letter to the infinite scroll and a meditation on love, language and human connection from one of the most original voices of our time.</p>