Caliban, a masterpiece by Rachel Ingalls. I’m happy that I have a really specific moment that happened on a really specific day so that when people ask me about this I can be like, “Yes! I have a moment! I know what it was!” We were moving apartments and I was hiding from my husband so I wouldn’t have to help him and I was in my room with all my cats reading Mrs. What was the first kernel of the idea for this book? What couldn’t you stop thinking about that led to creating this story? As real life and its stakes collide with the antics of the portal, the woman confronts a world that seems to contain both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary.
In this genre-defying book, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts is already struggling to grapple with the absurdity of what she terms “the portal” in the face of looming existential threats, when a personal tragedy pierces the fray of her attempts to lose herself ever deeper into the void. Sandia Ashley, Bookseller, interviewed Patricia Lockwood, author of No One Is Talking About This, in celebration of being shortlisted for the 2021 First Novel Prize.
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