Pizza Girl: A Novel
Jean Kyoung Frazier
In the tradition of audacious & wryly funny novels likeThe Idiot andConvenience Store Womancomes the wildly original coming-of-age story of a pregnant pizza delivery girl who becomes obsessed with one of her customers.
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST
• An audacious & wryly funny coming-of-age story about a pregnant pizza delivery girl who becomes obsessed with one of her customers.
Eighteen years old, pregnant, & working as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles, our charmingly dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost & in complete denial. She’s grieving the death of her father, avoiding her supportive mom & loving boyfriend, & 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 & the other toward middle age, the relationship between the two begins to blur in strange, complicated, & ultimately heartbreaking ways.
JEAN KYOUNG FRAZIER lives in Los Angeles. Pizza Girl is her debut novel.