No One Is Talking About This
Patricia Lockwood · 2021
A woman who lives online confronts real grief when her sister's baby is born with a fatal condition. Lockwood's debut novel captures internet consciousness with terrifying precision in part one, then shatters it with devastating emotional directness in part two. The structure is the argument.
The case against
Part one is a feed: fragment after fragment of portal-brain wit, already dating the way all topical jokes date, and if you were never extremely online it reads as static. Part two's dying baby dares you to call the pivot manipulative, and some readers will. Two strong halves; whether they add up to one book is a fair question.
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