36 pages • 1 hour read
No One is Talking About This
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Overview
Patricia Lockwood published the novel No One Is Talking About This in 2021. Lockwood is a poet known for her short-form poetry posted on Twitter and her memoir Priestdaddy (2017). No One Is Talking About This, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, depicts an unnamed protagonist navigating a life devoted to maintaining an online presence through social media and blog posts. When her sister’s unborn child is diagnosed with Proteus syndrome, the protagonist puts her online life on hold to support her family. This summary uses the paperback edition published in February 2022. Page numbers correspond to this version.
Plot Summary
The unnamed female protagonist of No One Is Talking About This is an influencer on the portal, the word she uses to describe the online social media, news, and blog sources that she obsessively follows. After rising to fame in the portal, the protagonist becomes a public speaker and teacher focusing on questions the portal presents to modern global society. She lives with her husband in an unspecified city and spends her days keeping track of trends in the portal and debating American conservatives online.
In Part 1 of the novel, the protagonist struggles with her increasing sense of physical and mental dissociation caused by spending so much time on the portal.
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