As her heroine puts it: the portal “had once been the place where you sounded like yourself. By the end of part one, the reader is exhausted by the sheer volume of hot takes. Lockwood expertly replicates the experience of sifting through disparate moments on Instagram, TikTok or Twitter, past memes that deliberately move your eye around an image to hit the joke at just the right time. On the character’s changing political views, for instance: “Slowly, slowly, she found herself moving towards a position so philosophical even Jesus couldn’t have held it: that she must hate capitalism while at the same time loving film montages set in department stores.” The book is short, about 200 pages, and broken into handfuls of sentences that tend to follow a certain formula, beginning with a philosophical musing which is undercut with a raunchy, weird or funny punchline.
Gradually it had become the place where we sounded like each other The portal, as the heroine puts it, had once been the place where you sounded like yourself.
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