Frankie recommends... Half His Age - Jennette McCurdy

Frankie says... A pacy, rollicking acid trip through teenage delusion. We follow Waldo, a rage-filled, cuttingly sharp, deluded girl across a tumultuous, graphic sexual affair with her teacher, where she flails and panics and copes in the only way she knows how: overconsumption, both with shopping and her nymphomania. Acerbic, courageous writing from McCurdy, which will undoubtedly stay with you, whether through disgust or honesty. 

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Waldo is ravenous. Horny.

Blunt. Naive. Wise.

Impulsive. Lonely. Angry.

Hurting. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all? Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher. Mr Korgy, with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn’t know why she wants him.

Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films that she doesn’t? Or are they actually kindred spirits, sharing the same filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it’s just enough that he sees her when no one else does. Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is an incisive study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles in her effort to be seen, to be desired and to be loved.