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notesofacrocodile 's review for:
Pizza Girl
by Jean Kyoung Frazier
3☆ — follows an eighteen-year-old who is a pizza delivery person and is also pregnant, placing her at the intersection of that sharp, stabbing anxiety about not knowing what to do with her life and in the throes of prenatal depression, forming a heady cocktail of disastrous decisions and depressive spirals, all accentuated by increasing drunken hazes. at the outset, it is pretty easy to see how bleak life must look for the protagonist- she doesn't have a college degree in hand and has a limited number of jobs she can take on, she doesn't feel unbridled happiness at the prospect of having a baby, she feels uncomfortably smothered by her mother and boyfriend, and the memories of her alcoholic father haunt her even long after his death.
the writing is suprisingly tender and has an emotional core to it, despite it being narrated by a character who is trying very hard to detach herself from her feelings. it has a contemplative quality to it sprinkled throughout, which i think is the reason why it has been compared to elif batuman's the idiot in the blurb. i was confused about why the blurb has used 'funny' as one of the adjectives to describe this book though, because at no point did i think that it was anything of that sort.
looking forward to reading more from this author!
the writing is suprisingly tender and has an emotional core to it, despite it being narrated by a character who is trying very hard to detach herself from her feelings. it has a contemplative quality to it sprinkled throughout, which i think is the reason why it has been compared to elif batuman's the idiot in the blurb. i was confused about why the blurb has used 'funny' as one of the adjectives to describe this book though, because at no point did i think that it was anything of that sort.
looking forward to reading more from this author!