No One Is Talking About This

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This urgent, genre-defying book explores the question: Is there life after the internet? It begins with a woman who has gained fame through her social media presence, traveling globally to meet her enthusiastic fans. Overwhelmed by the new language and etiquette of "the portal," she struggles with the feeling that a multitude of voices is shaping her thoughts. As existential threats like climate change, economic instability, a rising dictator, and widespread loneliness arise, she delves deeper into the portal's void, accumulating a barrage of images and references that create a landscape devoid of sense, irony, or clarity. The inhabitants of the portal ponder their reality, questioning if they are trapped in a hellish cycle. In the midst of this chaos, two urgent texts from her mother break through: "Something has gone wrong," and "How soon can you get here?" This collision of real life with the absurdities of the portal forces her to confront a world filled with both evidence of goodness and empathy and overwhelming proof to the contrary. Fragmentary yet insightful, the narrative serves as a love letter to the endless scroll and a profound meditation on love, language, and human connection from a distinctive voice in contemporary literature.