No One Is Talking About This

An inquiry-driven book: Is the internet the end of the world?

In this gripping, genre-bending novel, a lady who gained notoriety lately due to her postings on social media sets out to meet her devoted followers throughout the globe. She struggles to navigate the new language and manners of what she refers to as "the portal," feeling as if a large chorus of voices is now controlling her thoughts. She makes her way further into the portal's emptiness as existential problems start to loom, ranging from economic precariousness and climate change to the advent of an unidentified ruler and an epidemic of loneliness. A deluge of pictures, information, and allusions builds up to create a post-ironic, post-everything environment. The individuals who use the gateway question themselves, "Are we in hell?" "Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?"

Her mother sends her two SMS at the same moment, "Something has gone wrong," and "How soon can you get here?" The lady faces a world that appears to have both an abundance of evidence supporting the existence of kindness, empathy, and justice in the cosmos and an overwhelming amount of evidence contradicting it as real life and its stakes mix with the increasingly ridiculous antics of the gateway.

No One Is Talking About This by a Single Voice in American Literature is a deep, contemporary meditation on love, language, and human connection as well as a love letter to the unending scroll. It is fragmentary and omniscient, sharp and honest.