Finna

Written by Nino Cipri

Narrated by Amanda Dolan

Nino Cipri's Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the multiverse has to offer with the everyday awfulness of low-wage work. 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 an elderly customer at a Swedish big box furniture store-but not that one-slips through a portal to another dimension, it's up to two minimum-wage employees to track her across the multiverse and protect their company's bottom line. Multi-dimensional swashbuckling would be hard enough, but those two unfortunate souls broke up a week ago.

To find the missing granny, Ava and Jules will brave carnivorous furniture, swarms of identical furniture spokespeople, and the deep resentment simmering between them. Can friendship blossom from the ashes of their relationship? In infinite dimensions, all things are possible.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Sep 22, 2020
• ISBN: 9781705268407

Nino Cipri

Nino Cipri is a queer and trans/nonbinary writer, editor, and educator. They are a graduate of the 2014 Clarion Writers’ Workshop, and earned their MFA in fiction from the University of Kansas. A multidisciplinary artist, Nino has also written plays, screenplays, and radio features; performed as a dancer, actor, and puppeteer; and worked as a stagehand, bookseller, bike mechanic, and labor organizer. They are the author of the World Fantasy Award finalist and Dzanc Short Fiction Collection Prize winner, Homesick, and the LAMBDA finalist, Finna. Dead Girls Don't Dream is their young adult debut. ninocipri.com

Reviews for Finna

[Nathaniel Sofranko · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This was so fun! It's such a quick read between the relationship and the world building, it kept my interest and intrigued me throughout!

[Gretchen Wiseman · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

If tiktok wrote a book. Had to dnf when she said she felt dead inside. Poor mental health being tendy is getting old.

[Lisa Ha · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The beginning was hard to get through, considered dnf but powered through since it’s just a novella. It grazes on some valid social issues, but the overall tone feels a bit juvenile. Reminds me of how superficially snarky and emotionally clumsy I was as a teenager. Maybe that’s on purpose and the two main characters are actually teenagers. Definitely don’t seem older than early twenties. So might be good for some, but not for me.