In Jean Kyoung Frazier’s fresh, funny, bittersweet PIZZA GIRL (Doubleday, 208 pp., $24.95), our narrator is a kindred forensic investigator. Jane is 18, newly pregnant, working at a pizza joint with a B rating for cleanliness and a bevy of downtrodden employees. With every delivery run, Jane hands over warm boxes of pizza and grabs quick slices of life through customers’ half-open doors. The only thing that might snap him out of it, Jenny tells Jane, is pizza with pepperoni and pickles. Something in her voice — desperation, maybe optimism — inspires Jane to run out and buy a jar of pickles.

Source: New York Times June 09, 2020 18:42 UTC