Pizza Girl

By Jean Kyoung Frazier

Book Overview

*LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST*

Fresh, funny, bittersweet...This book delivers humor, humanity and hubris.--New York Times Book Review

Named an NPR, Marie Claire, and Teen Vogue best book of the year and a most anticipated book of 2020 by Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Time, People, BuzzFeed, Bustle, and more

In the tradition of audacious and wryly funny novels like The Idiot and Convenience Store Woman comes the wildly original coming-of-age story of a pregnant pizza delivery girl who becomes obsessed with one of her customers.

Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles, our charmingly dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial about it all. She's grieving the death of her father (whom she has more in common with than she'd like to admit), avoiding her supportive mom and loving boyfriend, and flagrantly ignoring her future.

Her world is further upended when she becomes obsessed with Jenny, a stay-at-home mother new to the neighborhood, who comes to depend on weekly deliveries of pickled-covered pizzas for her son's happiness. As one woman looks toward motherhood and the other toward middle age, the relationship between the two begins to blur in strange, complicated, and ultimately heartbreaking ways.

Bold, tender, propulsive, and unexpected in countless ways, Jean Kyoung Frazier's Pizza Girl is a moving and funny portrait of a flawed, unforgettable young woman as she tries to find her place in the world.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 038554572X
• ISBN13: 9780385545723
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

4 stars

PIZZA GIRL by Jean Kyoung Frazier A pregnant, 18 year old pizza delivery girl is stuck in limbo. She’s grieving over her father’s death, has no real future plans or goals despite a supportive mom and boyfriend. Right away you feel her longing, discontent and frustration. She becomes obsessed with a new customer, Jenny, a stay-at-home mom with an unusual order, a pepperoni pizza with pickles. Pizza girl’s infatuation with Jenny grows and the whole situation spirals into chaos. This book is sad and moody, but also sweet and funny at times. It has themes of breaking through generational trauma and learned behavior, grief and feelings of being lost in life. All topics that are relevant and relatable to just about everyone. Overall, a quick and easy read. Realistic in its portrayal of relationships and solidly fits into the whole ‘unlikable main character that you can’t help but root for’ trope. Recommend! Rating: 4/5 ⭐️

Real

This book holds a special place in my heart specifically because the main character is messy and doesn’t make the right decisions and even has supportive people around them. But in a way it felt like something I could finally connect to. Especially her obsession with someone who she romanticized on the phone in a time where her life was so insanely rough. Even the ending felt realistic as life doesn’t dramatically flip from terrible to fixed in a moment. But rather a slow burn of prospects in the horizon you can follow. It gave me a lot of insight about myself and it’s a book I’d read again. I sent a thank you to the author it was such a good book