num_pages: 210
description: A book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent genre-defying book opens a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms the portal where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. When existential threatsfrom climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of lonelinessbegin to loom she posts her way deeper into the portal's void. An avalanche of images details and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense post-irony post-everything. Are we in hell? the people of the portal ask themselves. Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?Suddenly two texts from her mother pierce the fray: Something has gone wrong and How soon can you get here? As real life and its stakes collide with the increasingly absurd antics of the portal the woman confronts a world that seems to contain both an abundance of proof that there is goodness empathy and justice in the universe and a deluge of evidence to the contrary.Fragmentary and omniscient incisive and sincere No One Is Talking About This is at once a love letter to the endless scroll and a profound modern meditation on love language and human connection from a singular voice in American literature.
language: English
title: No One Is Talking About This
publisher: Riverhead Books