Radio Iris

'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, The New York Times Book Review'A noirish nod to the monotony of work.'O: The Oprah Magazine'Kinney is a Southern California Camus.'Los Angeles Magazine''The Office' as scripted by Kafka.'Minneapolis Star-Tribune'[An] astute evocation of office weirdness and malaise.'The Wall Street JournalRadio Iris follows Iris Finch, a twentysomething socially awkward daydreamer and receptionist at Larmax, Inc., a company whose true function she doesnt understand (though shes heard her boss refer to himself as a businessman).Gradually, her boss erratic behavior becomes even more erratic, her coworkers begin disappearing, the phone stops ringing, making her role at Larmax moot, and a mysterious man appears to be living in the office suite next door.Radio Iris is an ambient, eerie dream of a novel, written with remarkable precision and grace that could also serve as an appropriate allegory for our modern recession.Anne-Marie Kinneys short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, Black Clock, Keyhole, and Satellite Fiction.