A review by happylilkt
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

4.0

I am still deciding what I think of this one, but I am giving it 4 stars because it is highly original. It is a very experimental piece of writing, which I think is good to know going in, but I actually would recommend not knowing much more than that? I purposely avoided reading the blurb of this book and had no awareness of Patricia Lockwood previously, so it was a bit of a surprise jumping right into this short (perhaps slightly autobiographical?) novel. Especially because the first half doesn't read like a novel, but just satirical social commentary.

I can't really recommend this to anyone who is sensitive to profanity and sexual content. There aren't really any sex scenes, but the humor relies on a lot of the profane topics of the internet, so ...

I will say that the first half often made me think of the wife in Fahrenheit 451... if she were living in the here and now, would this be her story? The second half ... there is definitely a shift and the book is less satire and more novel.