{"product_id":"9781641296366","title":"Jackson Alone","description":"\u003cb\u003eFour Black Japanese gay men team up against a culture where discrimination is deep-seated and revenge is just a click away. A searing, darkly funny debut from the Akutagawa Prize–winning author.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNobody at the corporate offices of Athletius Japan knows much about the massage therapist Jackson—but rumors abound. He used to work as a model. He likes to party. He’s mixed race—half-Japanese, half-somewhere-in-Africa-n. He might be gay. Fueling the gossip is the sudden appearance of a violent pornographic video featuring a man who looks a lot like Jackson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Jackson serendipitously meets three other queer mixed-race guys, he learns he’s not the only one being targeted. Together they concoct a plan: find out who’s responsible and, in the meantime, switch identities and play tricks on people—a boyfriend, a boss—who’ve wronged them, exploiting the fact that nobody can seem to tell them apart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA short, blistering gut punch of a novel, \u003ci\u003eJackson Alone\u003c\/i\u003e is at turns satirical and deadpan, angry and tender—a frank exploration of identity, race, queerness, and discrimination in contemporary Japan that announces Jose Ando as a singular new talent in the global literary scene.","brand":"Ando, Jose","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":68263985316052,"sku":"9781641296366","price":38.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_3ad3fdf4-b155-4278-8439-be63648310b7.jpg?v=1793644496","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781641296366","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}