As for that title, “FINNA,” it’s slang — or rather, as Marshall writes in the book, “a whole slang of possibility.” Roughly, narrowly, it means gonna, or intending to do something. “But it’s one of my favorite words,” Marshall said, “because there’s a lot in that, because it’s a word that mostly Black Chicagoans would recognize. And it connects back to the South. And it’s about everything that comes next. It says, this is what I’m about to do. It recognizes a past, and it’s forward-looking.”
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