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Finna by Nino Cipri6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() This 2020 work wastes no time pushing the reader, quite literally, into another dimension, as this science fiction-fantasy work never pauses for a break. Agent: DongWon Song, Howard Morhaim Agency. Nino Cipri’s Finna is a punchy, romantically adventurous, queer novella designed to poke fun at the boredoms of everyday life. ![]() Cipri delivers on a fun premise, but readers will wish for greater depths of feeling. Their emotional arcs resonate but are frequently overpowered by the introduction of new, seemingly random sets of problems to face. While confronting the mysteries each world offers, Jules and Ava negotiate their relationship dynamic, rehashing their breakup and lingering feelings. Each alternate dimension contains its own unpredictable monsters and amazements, in an episodic structure that will leave some readers longing for more connective tissue. It explores queer relationships and queer feelings, capitalism and accountability, labor and love, all with a bouncing sense of humor and a commitment to the strange. When Ava is unexpectedly called in for a shift at the big-box furniture store Litenvärld, she and her former partner Jules are tasked with delving into an endless series of wormholes into display rooms in alternate versions of the store to find a customer who was sucked through a wormhole. Nino Cipri's Finnais a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the multiverse has to offer with the everyday awfulness of low-wage work. Cipri ( Homesick: Stories), a Publishers Weekly reviewer, employs this delightfully unusual setting to explore the soul-crushing nature of retail work and the pain of recent breakups. In this whimsical but underwhelming interdimensional adventure through an endless furniture store, two retail workers face myriad otherworldly obstacles as well as the specter of their own recently ended relationship. ![]()
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