Pizza Girl
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl in...
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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.
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1Her name was Jenny Hauser and every Wednesday I put pickles on her pizza.
The first time she called in it d been mid-June, the summer of 2011. I d been at Eddie s a little over a month. My uniform polo was green and orange and scratchy at the pits, people would loudly thank me and then tip me a dollar, at the end of shifts my hair reeked of garlic. Every hour I thought about quitting, but I was eighteen, didn t know how to do much of anything, eleven weeks pregnant.
At least it got me out of the house.
The morning she d called, Mom hugged me four times, Billy five, all before I d pulled on my socks and poured milk over my cereal. They hurled I love yous against my back as I fast-walked out the front door. Some days, I wanted to turn around and hug them back. On others, I wanted to punch them straight in the face, run away to Thailand, Hawaii, Myrtle Beach, somewhere with sun and ocean.
I thank God that Darryl s boyfriend fucked a Walgreens checkout girl.
If Darryl s boyfriend had been kind, loyal, kept his dick in his pants, I wouldn t have answered the phone that day. Darryl could make small talk with a tree, had a laugh that made shoulders relax he manned the counter and answered the phones, I just waited for addresses and drove the warm boxes to their homes.
But Darryl s boyfriend was having a quarter-life crisis. Ketchup no longer tasted right, law school was starting to give him headaches, at night he lay awake next to the man he loved and counted sheep, 202, 203, 204, tried not to ask the question that had ruined his favorite condiment, spoiled his dreams, replaced sleep with sheep is this it? One day, he walked into a Walgreens to buy a pack of gum and was greeted by a smile and a pair of D cups. The next day, Darryl spent most of his shift curbside,
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yelling into his phone. The front door was wide open, and I tried not to listen, but failed.
On our first date you told me that even the word pussy made you feel like you needed a shower.
It was the slowest part of the day. A quarter past three. Too late for lunch, too early for dinner, pizza was heavy for a mid-afternoon snack. The place was empty except for me and the three cooks. They waved hello and goodbye and not much else. I couldn t tell if they didn t speak English or if they just didn t want to speak to me.
You know you ve ruined Walgreens for me, right? I m going to have to drive ten extra minutes now and go to the CVS to get my Twizzlers. God damn it, you know that I can t get through a day without my fucking Twizzlers.
I was sitting on an empty table, turning paper napkins into birds and stars and listening to my iPod at a volume that allowed me to think, but not too deeply. I couldn t remember the name of the boy I used to share Cheetos with in first grade. I wondered if I had ever used every drop of a pen s ink. All shades of blue made my chest warm.
Our boss, Peter, napped around this time. Every day, at 3:00 p.m. without fail, he d close his office door and ask us to please, please not fuck anything up. We never fucked anything up. We also didn t get much done. I stared at a large puddle of orange soda on the floor and made a paper-napkin man to sit among the birds and the stars.
Oh God, tell me you wore a condom.
The phone rang then. I was about to call for Darryl. He started shouting about abortion.
I d be lying if I said I don t look back on this moment and feel its weight. I could ve j
On our first date you told me that even the word pussy made you feel like you needed a shower.
It was the slowest part of the day. A quarter past three. Too late for lunch, too early for dinner, pizza was heavy for a mid-afternoon snack. The place was empty except for me and the three cooks. They waved hello and goodbye and not much else. I couldn t tell if they didn t speak English or if they just didn t want to speak to me.
You know you ve ruined Walgreens for me, right? I m going to have to drive ten extra minutes now and go to the CVS to get my Twizzlers. God damn it, you know that I can t get through a day without my fucking Twizzlers.
I was sitting on an empty table, turning paper napkins into birds and stars and listening to my iPod at a volume that allowed me to think, but not too deeply. I couldn t remember the name of the boy I used to share Cheetos with in first grade. I wondered if I had ever used every drop of a pen s ink. All shades of blue made my chest warm.
Our boss, Peter, napped around this time. Every day, at 3:00 p.m. without fail, he d close his office door and ask us to please, please not fuck anything up. We never fucked anything up. We also didn t get much done. I stared at a large puddle of orange soda on the floor and made a paper-napkin man to sit among the birds and the stars.
Oh God, tell me you wore a condom.
The phone rang then. I was about to call for Darryl. He started shouting about abortion.
I d be lying if I said I don t look back on this moment and feel its weight. I could ve j
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Autoren-Porträt von Jean Kyoung Frazier
JEAN KYOUNG FRAZIER lives in Los Angeles. Pizza Girl is her debut novel.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jean Kyoung Frazier
- 2021, 208 Seiten, Maße: 12,9 x 20,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 1984899007
- ISBN-13: 9781984899002
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.07.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
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LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST Named an NPR, Marie Claire, and Teen Vogue best book of the year and a most anticipated book of the year by Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Time, People, BuzzFeed, Bustle, and more"Fresh, funny, bittersweet...This book delivers humor, humanity and hubris."
New York Times Book Review
"Explosive...[Pizza Girl] bristles with biting wit and optimism, each page a feast of Cheeto-fingered heart, humor, and lyricism."
Esquire
"This quirky, moody novel delivers in unexpected ways."
People
"Sharp and surprising, Pizza Girl shows us how obsession can fill the empty spaces in a young woman's life. Jean Kyoung Frazier will make you laugh with one sentence and break your heart with the next. A delicious debut."
Julia Phillips, author of Disappearing Earth
"In fearless, propulsive prose, Jean Kyoung Frazier perfectly captures the listless ache of a grieving, aimless teen on the cusp of terrifying responsibility. A sublime ode to obsessive outcasts and lovable screw-ups everywhere, Pizza Girl is irresistible and bold, brutal and sweet, with an ending that will thrash your heart."
Kimberly King Parsons, author of Black Light
"Pizza Girl is luminous, brooding, and, frankly, awe-inspiring. It's a joy to spend time in Frazier's world, an experience that only illuminates our own. The novel that teaches you something about yourself is a rare thing, and Frazier has given us a gift."
Bryan Washington, author of Lot
"Jean Kyoung Frazier, a blazing new voice in fiction, has given us a sly, poignant glimpse into the wilds of suburbia, where intergenerational queer love and alienation from labor go hand in hand. And who doesn't want to read about that?"
Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
"To Pizza Girl, Jean Kyoung Frazier brings a flawless ear for language, great inventiveness, unfailing intelligence and
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empathy, and best of all a rare and shimmering wit. This novel has immense appeal."
Richard Ford
"Pizza Girl is a funny and moving debut, full of wry observation and deep humanity. Jean Kyoung Frazier s incredibly winning protagonist delivers laughter and grief with all the toppings. A wonderful novel from a new writer with talent and heart."
Sam Lipsyte, author of Hark
"Frazier s darkly comic, unsentimental, subversive debut novel, Pizza Girl, heralds the debut of a wholly-original new kind of American hero, a pregnant, teetering-on-alcoholic Korean-American teenager, as well as the arrival of a wildly gifted writer."
Elissa Schappell, author of Blueprints for Building Better Girls
[A] playful and unflinching debut This infectious evocation of a young woman s slackerdom will appeal to fans of Halle Butler and Ottessa Moshfegh, and will make it difficult not to root for the troubled and spirited pizza girl.
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
[A] quirky and emotionally resonant L.A.-set debut Offbeat, polished, and heartfelt.
Booklist
Richard Ford
"Pizza Girl is a funny and moving debut, full of wry observation and deep humanity. Jean Kyoung Frazier s incredibly winning protagonist delivers laughter and grief with all the toppings. A wonderful novel from a new writer with talent and heart."
Sam Lipsyte, author of Hark
"Frazier s darkly comic, unsentimental, subversive debut novel, Pizza Girl, heralds the debut of a wholly-original new kind of American hero, a pregnant, teetering-on-alcoholic Korean-American teenager, as well as the arrival of a wildly gifted writer."
Elissa Schappell, author of Blueprints for Building Better Girls
[A] playful and unflinching debut This infectious evocation of a young woman s slackerdom will appeal to fans of Halle Butler and Ottessa Moshfegh, and will make it difficult not to root for the troubled and spirited pizza girl.
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
[A] quirky and emotionally resonant L.A.-set debut Offbeat, polished, and heartfelt.
Booklist
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