Protagonist

No One Is Talking About This is an autobiographical novel, thus the unnamed protagonist character is based on the author, Patricia Lockwood. There is little specific information provided about the protagonist's life before the events of the novel. She is a married woman with no children and she is originally from Ohio but lives in another state during the story's time frame. She has a contentious relationship with her father because of their differing political beliefs but gets along well with the other members of her family—her mother, brother, and sister.

When the novel begins, the protagonist is obsessed with the portal—the author's term for the internet—and she suddenly becomes famous after a post she writes, reading simply "Can a dog be twins" (13) goes viral. Lockwood herself has gained considerable notoriety for her online presence, particularly her posts on the social media app Twitter. As...