"Patricia Lockwood's first novel, No One Is Talking About This, isn't what it first seems. It begins with the main character spending her days pinging around 'the portal,' a stand-in for social media platforms, where she's gained some fame for blasting out half-formed thoughts about Chuck E. Cheese and parroting internet-approved joke formulas. The book pulls a sharp U-turn partway through when tragedy rips the protagonist out from the safe meaninglessness of the portal and back into the 'real' world. Unlike some cautionary tales that take an overly simplistic view of social media use as inherently 'bad' or narcissistic, Lockwood grapples with its nuances from the viewpoint of someone who deeply understands its specific language and community, teasing out the bizarre nature of a life performed on Twitter with comedy and startling incisiveness." — Lisa Peterson
Read the book: No One Is Talking About This ($18) by Patricia Lockwood