"Something in the back of her head hurt. It was her new class consciousness."
A debut novel that was shortlisted for last year’s Booker Prize,
Lockwood’s No One is Talking About This, is impressive as the accolades
sound. The format was initially difficult to contend with and then it hit me.
Reading this novel was an exact evocation of the crazy world we find ourselves
in at this point in history.
The barrage of noise from apps, the internet, and the feeling that we
are all failing miserably at reaching the levels of perfection thrown at us are
all captured in a unique voice that feels both crazy and familiar. The novel is
unusually crafted in fragmentary paragraphs that recall the character limitations
of twitter and resonate with a kind of poetry
5 out of 5… a fantastic debut
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