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

I first read this book in 2021, shortly after returning to work after having my first baby. I was still shaking off lockdown, very much online and only present in the real world when I was with my family. This book resonated with me. The style suited my long-covid and postpartum fogged brain. I didn't have to try to keep up with the stream of consciousness style, since one event was barely linked to the next, and I just let the beautiful, poetic language wash over me on audio. And then the second part came, and destroyed me. The language was utterly, devastatingly beautiful. Even knowing what was coming, even remembering specific parts word for word two years later, I still spent most of the second half sobbing. I absorbed a great deal more of the first half during this reading, though. It seemed more cohesive. Oddly enough, the timeline of the portal and the MC's interactions with it felt more grounded and recognizable now that I've got more distance from the events that inspired it. 


Readers may also enjoy "Dept of Speculation" and "Because Internet".
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