Pizza Girl

A Novel

By: Jean Kyoung Frazier

Narrated by: Jeena Yi

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.

Surprising, but not for me

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

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

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.

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.

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.