The review's later parenthetical reference to Andrew Martin's debut novel is noteworthy.
"No one who likes Yeats is capable of human intimacy," says Nick, and I was reminded of friends swiping left on Tinder, rejecting dates because their favorite movies signaled unquestionable incompatibility. There's built-in social meaning for any interest or opinion. Decisions are made according to typologies. They read Patricia Lockwood and watch Greta Gerwig movies they read Twitter for jokes. Rooney's characters love to announce where they fall on the matrix of taste and social awareness. 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.įragmentary 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.Ignore the m-word and read Sally Rooney: How Should a Millennial Be?Īs a portrait of young people today, Rooney's books are remarkably precise-she captures meticulously the way a generation raised on social data thinks and talks. "Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?" "Are we in hell?" the people of the portal ask themselves. An avalanche of images, details, and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony, post-everything. When existential threats-from climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of loneliness-begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portal's void. 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. I really think this book is remarkable.” -David Sedarisįrom "a formidably gifted writer" ( The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet?Īs 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.
What an inventive and startling writer…I’m so glad I read this. I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book. “A book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, witty and, eventually, deeply moving.” - New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice FINALIST FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE & A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2021
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