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Pizza Girl

By: Jean Kyoung Frazier
Narrated by: Jeena Yi
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Publisher's summary

LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST • An audacious and wryly funny coming-of-age story about 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. She's grieving the death of her father, 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.

©2020 Jean Kyoung Frazier (P)2020 Random House Audio
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Critic reviews

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

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

"Explosive...[Pizza Girl] bristles with biting wit and optimism, each page a feast of Cheeto-fingered heart, humor, and lyricism."—Esquire

"This quirky, moody novel delivers in unexpected ways."—People

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Surprising, but not for me

Interesting story with fresh characters, but the main character is a little too unsympathetic. I wanted more.

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Good plot average writing

See title , the story is engaging but writing is more or less sub par. This is not the great American novel

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Pizza Girl is a slice of fun

I enjoyed the book a lot. Having not read the premise I was shocked by the language used, but that also added to the authenticity of the character. The book is definitely a wild and fun journey of discovery of both the main character sense of self and their desire.

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Accurate portrayal of a lost high-schooler from 2011

Pregnant and disconnected from it, in a broken home, with no plan for her life and in a stagnant relationship, the main character is floundering as all eighteen year olds would be in her situation. Dissatisfied with life, she develops a limerant attachment with one of her customers, who is also a mess, and throughout the novel she's forced to come to terms with everything.

Dialogue was spot on for the time and ages of the characters and her prose is not obtusely descriptive. If you're feeling nostalgic, get the book. It brought me back to my high school years.

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Loose Ends

Pleasant narrator. I felt it was slow to get to the main story line. Ending Confused me, maybe to abrupt or loose ends left undone.

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Love this story

The story was well written and relatable (to a point 😅). Smooth narration. Definitely worth the listen!

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Writing

I want to say I loved the writing and will certainly read Frazier’s other works. This plot as a whole fell flat for me, but the writing was lovely.

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I hated this book.

This is a silly, predictable, angst-filled, coming of age story.

The two main characters (Jenny, "Pizza Girl") are comically pathetic and the bond they share feels forced.

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Poorly cast narrator :(

Meh. The story is just so so, filled with lots of unbelievable occurrences and too many complex issues crammed into one small novel. But the most annoying thing was the audible narrator. Very poorly cast, made it even harder to like it, sadly.

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