The Sound of Yellow Static: A Roni Finch Novel

Roni Finch knows something is wrong before anyone else can name it.The dashboards are green. The meetings are polite. Everyone says they’re fine.But to Roni, the room sounds exhausted.As a UX designer with a brain that notices patterns sideways, Roni can hear the difference between healthy productivity and people quietly disappearing under the weight of being useful. What begins as a strange workplace signal soon becomes something larger: a team performing “fine” so convincingly that no one remembers how to ask for help.With help from her steady, systems-weird almost-boyfriend Lucas, his sacred QA duck Margaret, practical best friend Claire, criminally gifted calico Gabby, and the Outcast Outlaws, Roni must learn a harder kind of translation.Not every signal is hers to solve.Warm, funny, and emotionally intelligent, The Sound of Yellow Static is a contemporary novel about burnout, boundaries, found family, slow-burn love, and the strange relief of being understood without having to become smaller. Read more