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

5.0

I almost didn't pick this one up because it sounded like it might be a bit too conceptual for me, but I'm glad I gave it a try. I have never engaged that intensely with the culture, so I didn't catch many of the references, but it didn't matter. My partner heard parts of it and said it sounded almost like a poem, and it did. Some of it reminded me of song lyrics that don't necessarily make sense in and of themselves, but somehow convey meaning anyway. It did an excellent job of conveying the feeling of scrolling through social media, and Kristen Sieh pulled off the challenging narration like a champ!

I did not expect the

dead baby

at all, and it felt jarring, this huge, heavy dose of reality in the midst of all this mindless nonsense. But I think that was the point. At the end of the day, none of the online crap we get all worked up about matters. Yes, it was heavy, but it was beautiful and moving and somehow even uplifting in the sadness.