A review by rzarate9696
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

3.0

This book is not remotely at all what I expected, and that instilled some unfair disillusionment in my initial reading. As I'm reading I'm thinking, "Ugh here's another 'social media is happening to us and I want to acknowledge it through fiction' kind of story" that I'm not at all really romanced by, but it soon changes its trajectory toward the real focal point of the story: the birth of the narrator's sister's daughter, who has Protean Syndrome. The narrator recounts her experience of this event through the portal of social media, with its detached and ironic humor that clashes with her father's politics and her mother's sensibilities. I'll leave the rest for you but overall the second half of the book makes it a 3 star for me. I could care less about the author's initial poetic meanderings of "what it all means" when it comes to social media on its own, but I'm completely compelled when it comes to her coping and interpreting her experiences with her niece through social media. I'd love to read her poetry. There are also some really hilarious lines here, I'll leave those as well for you to read.