Sci-fi contemporary novella. Sequel to Finna, featuring low-wage precarious retail employees of the same Ikea-esque big-box chain whose stores, because of the bizarre physics of their layout, sometimes connect with parallel worlds. This one begins, according to the author in the Acknowledgments section, from that one “otherwise inoffensive coworker that still somehow manages to earn your ire at every turn, because it’s easier to heap scorn on a clueless coworker than to change the system actually making your life hell.” It asks what his story is, and then it tells it. Clever and playful. Indirectly poses some interesting questions about what makes us who we are, though I can’t say exactly how it does so without spoiling the book. The form of the workplace resistance it features may not be directly applicable to the real world of lousy retail jobs, but the spirit certainly is! I continue to be a fan of this author.
Originally posted by Scott on Goodreads.