![]() ![]() The second half begins with the frightening ultrasound results, and chronicles her sister’s tense pregnancy and delivery and the child’s six-month life. Over the first half of the book, the contents of various digital feeds make their way through the third-person protagonist’s consciousness, as she browses and posts on and even gives talks about the internet. In drawing together the late 2010s internet and a child with a debilitating disorder, Lockwood sets up an antithesis that initially looks overdetermined. No One Is Talking About This has two subjects, and they seem calculated to throw each other into relief. Out of the clash between crisis and apparently banal digitized life, Lockwood draws out emotion in all its superficiality, power, and contradiction. This crisis “cleanly and completely lift her out of the stream of regular life,” specifically a life of being Extremely Online. Patricia Lockwood’s new novel’s plot is split by news that the unnamed protagonist receives just over halfway through the book: her sister’s pregnancy is abnormal. ![]()
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