“A book especially tried to force you to see things, try to breed you, in short, like a sunflower,” Patricia Lockwood writes. Her new autofictional novel — following her memoir Priestdaddy and 2021 Booker Prize shortlisted No One is Talking About This — does indeed try to force you to see things, particularly the distracted precarity brought on by her experience of long Covid and its muddling effects. In