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    612-822-4611

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Black Bag

Black Bag

Kennard, Luke

Hardcover

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $28.00

ISBN10: 1638933383
ISBN13: 9781638933380
Publisher: Zando
Published: Mar 17 2026
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026

The funniest and smartest novel I've read in a while. --Zadie Smith

An 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?

In 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. Dr. Blend wants to know: how will his 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 yields unexpected consequences, from a professor of post-humanism developing research questions of her own--in particular, can you love someone secreted away inside a black bag?--to the actor's childhood friend forming a vision for monetizing this unique new situation. In the end, only Black Bag will be able to say what it all means . . .

A warped campus novel, an investigation into the crisis of masculinity, and an off-kilter love story, Black Bag is a firework of a novel: blazingly funny and profoundly humane.

A genre-defying, big-swing of a novel . . . a sharply funny meditation on masculinity, academia, the modern attention economy, and the quiet desperation of everyday life. --Andrew Boryga, author of Victim

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