Pizza Girl

The logline sounds like the most depressing character study you’ll ever read. A story of a pregnant teenager, Jane, who lives with her mom after the death of her father. Jane spends her days delivering pizzas and her nights drinking beers alone in a shed behind their house. But thanks to the prose, and the pacing of the plotting, this book is both funny, engaging, and something of a psychological thriller. Especially when Jane becomes obsessed with one of her regulars, a stay-at-home mom. We marveled at Kyoung Frazier’s ability to put us in the head of Jane, in a… show more.

Jean Kyoung Frazier has done something so remarkable with this novel - she's managed to write a book with no villains in it, but also no "good guys." The narrator of Pizza Girl is, you guessed it, an 18-year-old pizza delivery girl in Los Angeles. Her father has recently died, she’s pregnant, and her boyfriend is living with her and her mom. Both of them really excited about the baby—our narrator is not. When she encounters a stay-at-home mom named Jenny during one of her deliveries, our narrator finds herself with a powerful and confusing crush. Although brief (and hard… show more.