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A review by azimhol
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
I was prepared for Lockwood’s sharp, funny observations about life online and the anxiety and doom of 2016 in the US (and on a burning planet more broadly). She delivered on that.
What I wasn’t prepared for was Part 2 of this novel. The specificity of the jarring limbo a serious health issue thrusts a family into. The hopelessness, the guilt, the strange moments of comic relief that somehow find a way, the transformation of the once familiar “life before” into an unrecognizable thing. And the dogs who always know.
What I wasn’t prepared for was Part 2 of this novel. The specificity of the jarring limbo a serious health issue thrusts a family into. The hopelessness, the guilt, the strange moments of comic relief that somehow find a way, the transformation of the once familiar “life before” into an unrecognizable thing. And the dogs who always know.