No One Is Talking About This

In the first part of this book there's an obvious comparison to be made to Jenny Offill's writing with its short, interlinked paragraphs, but the motives feel different. This is more like a printout of a Twitter feed than a considered collection of vignettes. The second part is a grief memoir and it took me by surprise because the shift in tone was so dramatic, but it becomes something quite beautiful once you've settled into it. As a whole, this is a story about how the internet has taken over our lives and the few brief intervals of respite we get from it when ‘real life' intervenes. It's painfully of the moment, and prompts us to consider what's more important in life - actual human contact, or the bizarre and fleeting internet notoriety that so many people seem to crave these days.