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Patricia Lockwood: No One Is Talking About This (Hardcover, 2021, Riverhead Books)

As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence …

Hilarious and heartbreaking

I don't think any book has ever made me laugh more than the first half of this one did. Lockwood has mastered the one-two punch of comedy + tragedy that makes the tonal shift of the latter half hit all that much harder (see also: Catch-22, that one episode of Futurama about Fry's dog). So many choice quotes. A masterful depiction of the inner life of someone who's way too online, and what it feels like when the IRL world forces us to log off.