Audiobook Review: Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier

Book: 106/150

Rating: 3/5

Our narrator, Pizza Girl, (who's name isn't revealed), is 18 when she finds out she's pregnant. On top of this, she's already dealing with her crap job working at a pizza place, the loss of her father, and her complicated relationships with her boyfriend and mother. Still reeling from her pregnancy, she meets Jenny; a woman who requests pickles on pizza for her son who is having a hard time adjusting to their move. After meeting Jenny when delivering the pizza, Pizza Girl begins a complicated friendship and obsession with Jenny.

Pizza Girl is raw and nuanced; the reader is in the passenger's seat of her complicated transition to adulthood. This coming of age story reminded me of Nothing to See Here in terms of its dark humour and quirkiness. While the story is very vivid (I could totally picture this middle America town it took place in), it was just one that didn't grip me as much as I wanted it to. It was one of those books where I finished it and was like 'oh, okay'; it wasn't the best book I've ever read, but certainly not the worst.

While this book didn't hit it out of the park for me, I liked Jean Kyoung Frazier's characters and would read her work again.