A rank-and-file employee at an advertising firm announces in a work chat that he's stuck in Slack and can't get out. His boss assumes he just wants to work from home, while his colleagues think there are better jokes out there. But this is no joke!

American writer Calvin Kasalka's absurdist and humorous book, 'Personal Message Disorder,' is structured like an endless work chat, where office correspondence with emojis and banter, discussions of client cases, and flirtations in private messages reveals the amazing story of a man who has become just text and is trying to understand conversation, emotions, love, and, in general, the existence of a modern person who perceives reality through dozens of chats.