Patricia Lockwood's novel captures the vertiginous experience of living through the internet, following a woman whose life has become indistinguishable from her online presence until a family crisis forces her into the bodily world. The unnamed narrator has achieved fame for her posts in 'the portal'--never named as Twitter but unmistakably that platform's dreamlike scroll of jokes, outrages, and fleeting intimacies. Lockwood recreates the texture of terminally online consciousness: the way memes become private language, how news arrives as one more item in an infinite feed, the peculiar friendships formed with people known only through text. Then the narrator's sister discovers her unborn baby has Proteus syndrome, a rare genetic condition, and the book shifts into an account of caregiving that refuses sentimentality while honoring the body's irreducible reality. Lockwood, herself a poet and memoirist who rose to fame through social media, writes from inside the experience she depicts. The prose moves between the staccato rhythm of posts and longer passages that build toward the aching fact of mortality. The novel asks what attention means when everything competes for it simultaneously, and whether the community formed through screens can sustain us when we need physical presence. It's a portrait of consciousness reshaped by technology, rendered in language that enacts what it describes.