Finna

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paperback, 144 pages

English language

Published Feb. 25, 2020 by Tor.com.

ISBN:
978-1-250-24573-1
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3 stars (2 reviews)

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.

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reviewed Finna by Nino Cipri

A Fun Read

3 stars

This is a short little read, but definitely fun! The characters are fun, the settings are, of course, interesting, and it's got gender!

That said, the promised anti-capitalism of the book comes off as a little capitalist-realismy, and the gender stuff is a little superficial (although some people like that!). Personally, I didn't deeply connect with the character's relationship or personal arcs either.

That said, I don't regret reading it. Because it's so short, it works super well as a great little pocket-sized adventure that's still fun and good to read!

reviewed Finna by Nino Cipri

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I was completely drawn in by the first line of the synopsis. "When an elderly customer at a big box furniture store slips through a portal to another dimension" (AS IS PRONE TO HAPPEN, OBVIOUSLY). Turns out, it is prone to happen in this chain. There is a company policy for what to do. There is even an old training video. Of course the equipment you are supposed to use to rescue the customer is old and potentially broken and who knows what kinds of worlds you are going to encounter. That's why it is policy to send the lowest ranking employees. They are expendable.



Ava and Jules are assigned the task. This is the first time they've spoken since they broke up. Now they have to face people-eating plants, murderous corporate drones, and pirates in their quest to survive the multiverse.



This novella also contains own voices nonbinary representation. …

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