It's difficult to pull off a funny novel or one that captures the zeitgeist in an exciting and strange way, as it should, like a pop song. This does both. It's not quite a Twitter novel, but it offers an experience of the world in the logic of Twitter, as Lockwood questions the justifications of our being constantly connected. It'll be interesting to see how this novel ages.
— Aurora
A highly entertaining commentary on the all-consuming nature of the internet, but also a deeply affecting portrait of the kind of love and devotion powerful enough to pry even the most chronically online of us from its clutches.
— Amanda
About the Author
Patricia Lockwood was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana and raised in all the worst cities of the Midwest. She is the author of two poetry collections, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black and Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, a New York Times Notable Book, and the memoir Priestdaddy, which was named one of the ten best books of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review. Lockwood's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and the London Review of Books, where she is a contributing editor.
