Several People Are Typing

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A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. "If you've ever felt imprisoned by work, the internet, or your mortal body, buy this book twice."--Tony Tulathimutte, author of Private Citizens Gerald, a mid-level employee of a New York-based public relations firm has been uploaded into the company's internal Slack channels-at least his consciousness has. His colleagues assume it's an elaborate gag to exploit the new work-from home policy, but now that Gerald's productivity is through the roof, his bosses are only too happy to let him work from . . . wherever he says he is. Faced 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, and he even finds an unlikely ally in Slack's AI assistant, who is keen to help him feel at home.Meanwhile, Gerald's 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's 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't 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? Hilarious, irreverent, and wholly original, Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing is a satire of both the virtual office and contemporary life, and a perfect antidote to the way we live now.