“Every day we were seeing new evidence that suggested it was the portal that had allowed the dictator to rise to power,” the narrator observes.
As familiar as this consuming portal feels, so too does the political climate within the book: America is ruled by “the dictator,” a loathsome man whose petulant behavior never seems to result in his demise, and despite, or perhaps because, of his inflammatory nature, he has garnered radical supporters. “The portal,” an online space that feels akin to the Twittersphere, consumes the speaker-for the narrator and those like her, the portal becomes a place where they live, their phones tethering them online. “Why did the portal feel so private, when you only entered it when you needed to be everywhere?” asks the narrator of poet and memoirist Patricia Lockwood’s debut novel No One Is Talking About This, out today.
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