Half His Age
Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy is a novel published by HarperCollins Publishers Limited on January 20, 2026, featuring 278 pages in English. This work explores themes of sex, class, desire, and power through the lens of a seventeen-year-old protagonist, Waldo, who navigates her complex feelings for her creative writing teacher, Mr. Korgy. The narrative delves into Waldo’s multifaceted emotions, portraying her as both impulsive and wise, as she grapples with her longing for connection and understanding.
Readers will find a blend of humor and dark insights as the story unfolds, capturing Waldo’s journey of self-discovery and her often misguided attempts to achieve her desires. The novel presents a keenly poignant examination of youth and the lengths individuals will go to be seen and loved. With its incisive observations and mordant wit, Half His Age offers a compelling look at the challenges of coming of age in a world filled with expectations and unfulfilled dreams.
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The highly anticipated, funny, sad, thrilling novel about sex, class, desire, and power – and the (often misguided) lengths we’ll go to to get what we want, from Jennette McCurdy, the three-million copy, Sunday Times bestselling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died.
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.
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