Radio Iris  is the story of Iris Finch, a socially awkward daydreamer with a job as the receptionist/personal assistant to an eccentric and increasingly absent businessman. When Iris is not sitting behind her desk waiting for the phone to ring, she makes occasional stabs at connection with the earth and the people around her through careful observation and insomniac daydreams, always more watcher than participant as she shuttles between her one-bedroom apartment and the office she inhabits so completely, yet has never quite understood. Her world cracks open with the discovery of “the man next door.” Over the next few weeks or months (the passage of time is iffy for Iris), she takes it upon herself to learn everything she can about this stranger. But the closer she gets to him, the more troubling questions at the heart of her own life rise to the surface, questions like ― Why does she keep having the same dream? Why is it that she and her brother don’t seem to have a single shared memory of their childhood? What is it her boss actually does? In the end, Iris is faced with a choice she never imagined, and a reality she never knew enough to dread. “Radio Iris has a lovely, eerie, anxious quality to it. Iris's observations are funny, and the story has a dramatic otherworldly payoff that is unexpected and triumphant.” ―Deb Olin Unferth, New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice "There's almost a noirish feel to this slim book, which offers a surreal look at how tedious and weird modern corporate life can be." ―Vulture "[An] astute evocation of office weirdness and malaise." ―Wall Street Journal "Radio Iris exists in a potent unreality, The Office as scripted by Kafka." ―Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Kinney is a Southern California Camus. She writes the old story of human versus workplace monotony with a twist. Iris may not be glamorous, but she is persistent, with a front-row seat to the end of business as usual." ―Los Angeles Magazine "A first novel with aplomb. Whether read as a parable about the modern workplace, an Alice in Wonderland fable or a portrait of an existential crisis that starts within Iris but spreads outward, the conclusion is as haunting as could be. Fans of David Lynch's films will appreciate how Iris Finch's world crumbles around her, literally and figuratively, in this intoxicating debut novel." ―Shelf Awareness "The language is gorgeous and, especially when spun into Kinney's apt and lyrical reflections on life, the real reason to read this book." ―Colorado Springs Independent Anne-Marie Kinney 's work has appeared in  Black Clock ,  Indiana Review , and  Keyhole , and has been performed by Los Angeles’s Word Theatre.  Radio Iris  is her first novel. Used Book in Good Condition