The sister’s pregnancy threatens her life, but Ohio’s conservative reproductive laws determine that she is too far into her pregnancy for an abortion. She learns that her unborn niece has Proteus syndrome, a severe condition characterized by asymmetrical and rapid bodily growth and the inability to form neural synapses. The protagonist promptly puts her life on hold and joins her family in Ohio. She then receives a text message from her mother saying that something has gone wrong with her sister’s pregnancy and asking her to return to her childhood home as soon as possible. In Part 2, the protagonist’s posts have made her a celebrity, and she travels the globe to speaking events.
The brief moments of celebrity that the protagonist experiences when one of her posts in the portal does well are her primary source of self-confidence and contentment. She asks her husband for a safe in which to lock her phone, but after two days her resolve breaks, and she desperately pleads with her husband to return her phone. She is often disturbed by friends “disappearing” from the portal but at the same time is intrigued by their ability to separate themselves from life online. In Part 1 of the novel, the protagonist struggles with her increasing sense of physical and mental dissociation caused by spending so much time on the portal. She lives with her husband in an unspecified city and spends her days keeping track of trends in the portal and debating American conservatives online. After rising to fame in the portal, the protagonist becomes a public speaker and teacher focusing on questions the portal presents to modern global society. The unnamed female protagonist of No One Is Talking About This is an influencer on the portal, the word she uses to describe the online social media, news, and blog sources that she obsessively follows.
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