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Finna by Nino Cipri
5.0

Just a delightful meringue of a scifi novella! Ana works for a big box store that sells Scandinavian furniture that people assemble at home, and has a labyrinthine layout of odd little showrooms. Sometimes, portals open between these stores, and similar stores in parallel universes. When Ana's ex Jules volunteers to look for a missing customer, Ana follows along, finding out that there are more wonders in this cosmos than dreamed of in your easy-to-follow ideographic instructions. This novel works as weird scifi, and also Queer romance, as Ana has to deal with the consequences of her flawed relationship with the trans/nonbinary Jules, and figure out if they can still be friends while surviving the carnivorous hazards of other universes.

The nitpicky literature person in me says that Jules is really the protagonist of the book, and that Ana is just drawn along in her wake, but she's a decent PoV.