Pizza Girl

Following in the bold and sardonic literary tradition of books such as The Idiot and Convenience Store Woman, this very inventive tale of a pregnant pizza delivery lady who develops an obsession with one of her clients comes of age.

Our endearingly flawed heroine is eighteen years old, pregnant, and employed as a pizza delivery girl in a suburban Los Angeles neighborhood. She is completely adrift and unaware of her circumstances. She's running away from her loving boyfriend and supportive mother, lamenting the loss of her father—with whom she shares more similarities than she'd like to acknowledge—and blatantly ignoring her future.

Her entire world is turned upside down when she develops an obsession with Jenny, a new stay-at-home mom in the neighborhood who becomes reliant on pickled covered pizza deliveries every week to ensure her son's happiness. The two women's connection starts to blur in odd, convoluted, and ultimately devastating ways as one looks toward children and the other into middle age.

Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier is a touching and humorous portrayal of a broken, unforgettable young woman as she searches for her place in the world. It is bold, delicate, propulsive, and unexpected in various ways.