![]() ![]() ![]() Lockwood shows us how, as an intangible but ever-expanding entity, the Internet has become an inextricable part of our collective reality. The sentences themselves are like beautifully formed pearls-‘ In Vienna the little cakes looked like the big buildings, or else the big buildings looked like the little cakes,’-but the text is broken up into short paragraphs that barely seem to relate to each other.Īs the novel progressed, I realised this stylistic choice was made to emulate how information is often presented online in a never-ending stream of information. The prose is so fragmented that any sense of narrative progression is barely detectable. Reading this book, I wasn’t sure if I could continue after the first few pages. ![]() ![]() However, a complication with her sister’s pregnancy draws her home and the subsequent lived experience she has with a niece born with Proteus Syndrome causes a drastic shift in her relationship with online space. The novel’s protagonist is a woman who has become famous for an innocuous viral tweet-loosely inspired by Lockwood’s own participation in the forming of ‘weird Twitter’-which leads to her travelling the world, speaking as an authority on digital communication. American poet Patricia Lockwood’s debut fiction novel No One Is Talking About This discusses how we position ourselves in relation to the Internet. ![]()
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