Lockwood’s life is inextricably intertwined with the internet. “Look how big her head is lol,” her sister had texted about an ultrasound before they realised it was a sign of abnormality. Two text messages from her mother cut the trip short: “Something has gone wrong” and “How soon can you get here?” She returns to her family home in Ohio to be with her sister, whose baby has been diagnosed with Proteus syndrome, a rare congenital disorder in utero. In the first, the unnamed protagonist – propelled to internet fame after tweeting “Can a dog be twins?” – meets fans on an international speaking tour.
No One Is Talking About This cleaves into two distinct parts. It follows the author’s poetry collections, including Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals (2014), and a memoir, Priestdaddy, which was named one of the 10 best books of 2017 by the New York Times. Patricia Lockwood’s debut novel, as she has tweeted, is “about being very inside the internet and then being very outside of it”.
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