![]() There was a point where I was deleting emails out of my email inbox and I found these old love emails I used to send to my first girlfriend, and there was just something so sweet and genuine about those emails… the length of them, just unapologetic, sentimental. I just didn't know how I would make all of that work. I'd been really wanting to do a teen character of some kind, and I knew I also wanted to do a pizza delivery novel. ![]() ![]() JEAN KYOUONG FRAZIER: I was a lot of short stories similar topics - young parenthood, addiction, sexuality, Americanization. SARAH NEILSON: What inspired this character? Shondaland sat down with Frazier to discuss art, love emails, complicated queer characters, and what it means to celebrate pride. Pizza Girl is a singular novel, complex and gripping, a short but sweeping story of a truly compelling character. ![]() Her fixation on, and relationship with, an older woman reveals new backroads into her psyche and her needs, while the drab, and, at time, bright landmarks of her life not only draw the reader deep into her character, but propel the story to surprising places.Īs we enter Pride month, in a year where a pandemic has changed much of how we come together, it’s especially vital to think about, read, and uplift queer stories that go beyond the typical narratives of white cisgender men and coming out narratives. Her narrator’s interiority is a map of all the pain, desire, and boredom that make a life. ![]() Frazier delivers a novel that is as breezy to read as it is hard-hitting. ![]()
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