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    "description": "Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack messages, this irresistible, relatable satire of both virtual work and contemporary life is The Office for a new world.\n\nGerald, a mid-level employee of a New York\u2013based public relations firm has been uploaded into the company\u2019s internal Slack channels\u2014at least his consciousness has. His colleagues assume it\u2019s an elaborate gag to exploit the new work-from home policy, but now that Gerald\u2019s productivity is through the roof, his bosses are only too happy to let him work from . . . wherever he says he is.\n \nFaced with the looming abyss of a disembodied life online, Gerald enlists his co-worker Pradeep to help him escape, and to find out what happened to his body. But the longer Gerald stays in the void, the more alluring and absurd his reality becomes.\n \nMeanwhile, Gerald\u2019s colleagues have PR catastrophes of their own to handle in the real world. Their biggest client, a high-end dog food company, is in the midst of recalling a bad batch of food that\u2019s allegedly poisoning Pomeranians nationwide. And their CEO suspects someone is sabotaging his office furniture. And if Gerald gets to work from home all the time, why can\u2019t everyone? Is true love possible between two people, when one is just a line of text in an app? And what in the hell does the :dusty-stick: emoji mean?\n \nIn a time when office paranoia and politics have followed us home, Calvin Kasulke is here to capture the surprising, absurd, and fully-relatable factors attacking our collective sanity\u2026and give us hope that we can still find a human connection.\n",
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