Publisher's Synopsis
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE
'Reading Patricia Lockwood feels like looking through a kaleidoscope built by a mischievous sorcerer - the world is suddenly rearranged in fragments that are cosmic, wondrous, humiliating, and profane. No One Is Talking About This is a furiously original novel, alive and unstable; the book builds to a reminder of how devastation and connection produce each other, endlessly and surprisingly, both on the internet and in human places that our shared digital consciousness can never reach.'
Jia Tolentino
The first novel from master of the zeitgeist Patricia Lockwood, No One is Talking About This is a classic book for our times about what it feels like to live and think online
This is a story about a life lived in two halves.
It's about what happens when real life collides with the world accessed through a screen.
It's about where we go when existential threats loom and high-stakes reality claims us back.
It's about living in world that contains both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary.
Irreverent and sincere, poignant and delightfully profane, No One Is Talking About This is a meditation on love, language and human connection from one of the most original voices of our time.
'Lockwood is a phenomenal writer who is a keen observer of . . . the fragility of the human heart.'
Roxane Gay
' I really admire and love this book. Patricia Lockwood is a completely singular talent and this is her best, funniest, weirdest, most affecting work yet
Sally Rooney
