Radio Iris Author:Anne-Marie Kinney "Radio Iris brings new shimmer and depth to the word 'sensory'—Iris' perceptions are both keen and open, so mysterious and grounded, and the book builds to a narrative of mystery and longing with visceral, ringing precision." — —Aimee Bender — "Radio Iris is a revelation, a whimsical, charming and beautifully observed novel about quotidian life. A... more »nne-Marie Kinney's Iris is a contemporary version of Calvino's Marcovaldo, caught between the rich expression of her own humanity and the random demands of the workaday world."
—T.C. Boyle
"Working for a company that might be called Kafka Ballard & Dickinson, bearing a kind of sonic witness to a world of static, Iris likes to listen the way some like to watch. Searching for home, she?s the passenger of her own voice. Anne-Marie Kinney?s Radio Iris is a novel of unsettling humor and elusive terror, a piercing loneliness and the strangeness of the banal, and a hushed power that grows in volume before your ears."
—Steve Erickson
Radio Iris follows Iris Finch, a twentysomething socially awkward daydreamer and receptionist at Larmax, Inc., a company whose true function she doesn?t understand (though she?s 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 Kinney?s short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, Black Clock, Keyhole, and Satellite Fiction.« less