{"product_id":"9781638933380","title":"Black Bag","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn out-of-work actor accepts the role of a lifetime—sitting soundlessly in a lecture theater, zipped into a large leather bag—to aid a professor’s psychological experiment. What could possibly go wrong?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Luke Kennard’s audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a job working for Dr. Blend, a university professor who is conducting a psychological experiment. How will Dr. Blend’s students react to someone zipped into an oversized bag, sitting at the back of the lecture hall over a series of Fall lectures? The role, eagerly accepted, soon has unexpected consequences. A professor of post-humanism develops research questions of her own—in particular, can you love someone secreted away inside a black bag?—and the actor’s childhood friend forms a vision for monetizing this new situation . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA warped campus novel, an investigation into the crisis of masculinity, and an off-kilter love story, \u003ci\u003eBlack Bag\u003c\/i\u003e is a firework of a novel: blazingly funny and profoundly humane.","brand":"Luke Kennard","offers":[{"title":"Zando |  Hardback  |  2026-03-17","offer_id":47340737921279,"sku":"9781638933380","price":36.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_6510852e-928b-44fc-8850-e2f913b275cb.jpg?v=1760025138","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781638933380","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}