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Pizza Girl: A Novel Audiobook
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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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“Jeena Yi is the ideal narrator for this stunning debut audiobook...Yi expertly conveys Jenny’s melodious timbre and confiding manner, which mesmerize the confused but sympathetic Pizza Girl. Yi’s pitch-perfect narration keeps listeners entranced until the final moments of this explosive audiobook…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones.”
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“Fresh, funny, bittersweet…This book delivers humor, humanity and hubris."
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“Bristles with biting wit and optimism, each page a feast.”
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“This infectious evocation of a young woman’s slackerdom…will make it difficult not to root for the troubled and spirited pizza girl.”
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“[A] quirky and emotionally resonant L.A.-set debut…Offbeat, polished, and heartfelt.”
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“Jane’s strong voice and lack of post–high school direction will resonate with teens.”
— School Library Journal
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New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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A New York Times Book Review pick of Best Books Now in Paperback
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Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
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A Marie Claire Magazine Pick of Best Books of the Year
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A Teen Vogue Pick of the Year's Best Books
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An NPR Best Book of the Year
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Among shortlisted titles for Lambda Literary Award, 2021
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About Jeena Yi
Nikki Massoud is the Audie Award–winning narrator of over thirty audiobooks. Also an experienced actor, her television credits include guest starring on Love Life, Emergence, and Madam Secretary, and her stage credits include Wish You Were Here at Playwrights Horizons and Othello at New York Theatre Workshop. She is also an Atlantic Launch Commission writer. Based in New York City, she is a first-generation Iranian-American immigrant who was raised in Montreal and Washington, DC.