Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier

4 reviews

elderwoodreads's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book is my second best read of 2023. While I don't share the character's main struggle of teen pregnancy there were times where it felt like the author pulled thoughts straight from my teenage mind. If you're a fan of "girl vs the void" stories this is definitely for you, if you liked Milkfed by Melissa Bromer this is for you. I definitely know it won't be everyone's cup of tea but it certainly is mine and I look forward to rereading it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Grief, Alcohol, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Gun violence, and Vomit

Minor: Domestic abuse, Biphobia, Drug use, Miscarriage, Eating disorder, Infidelity, and Child abuse

cactusmotif's review against another edition

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Grief, Death of parent, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, and Death

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Miscarriage and Ableism

reneelizabeth_'s review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Pizza Girl was a devastating, gut-wrenchingly vulnerable exploration of human experience and human connection. After finding out she is pregnant at 18, the protagonist's - whom we only find out her name at the end of the novel - whole identity revolves around her being a pregnant Pizza Girl. As she contemplates the hopelessness of her life and situation, she is begged by a desperate mother to deliver a specialty Pizza to her home.

This relationship starts an infatuation and longing for connection that Pizza Girl becomes obsessed with. To which she later reflects: 

"I would’ve found something else to lose myself in—if you were pushed off a cliff, you’d grab hold of anything resembling safety."

Jean Kyoung Frazier creates such interesting and complex characters and winds them together in a way that makes the reader reflect on societal behaviours. Her writing was simple but so beautiful and quite a few of her lines made my gut wrench, like: 

"I wondered what animals lived under the shadows of my bones. I hoped they were animals of nobility—lions and eagles and horses with long manes—and not what I fearedvultures and wolves and drooling hyenas."

An honestly devastating, yet beautiful read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Addiction, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Miscarriage

mariebouthi's review

dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Grief, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Miscarriage, and Suicidal thoughts