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A Pizza Hut, A Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut
Herb and Lara are busy slinging coffees in their hometown – of Watford! While Herb dreams of leaving to write big gay plays for a big gay world, Lara’s dedication to being in the here and now keeps her firmly rooted. Plus she’s fallen madly in love with Cynthia, a high-femme roboteer here to finish her PhD, teaching her way through robot post-doc hell, stamping on the brains of robo-boys as she goes. Soon Watford will use Cynthia’s inventions to reinvent itself into the communised Watford Underburg, but not yet.
Meanwhile, Lazarus is back at her mum’s. Her attempt at city life didn’t exactly go to plan, and now she spends her days working on a Yiddish translation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle and playing video games. With no capacity to think about her future and trying to forget her past, what will happen? Local football coach Butch Lichenstein, that’s what.
A Pizza Hut, A Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut is a wildly inventive and funny novel that counters the idea of the suburbs as a place queers leave and plays out the radical implications of staying put.
Meanwhile, Lazarus is back at her mum’s. Her attempt at city life didn’t exactly go to plan, and now she spends her days working on a Yiddish translation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle and playing video games. With no capacity to think about her future and trying to forget her past, what will happen? Local football coach Butch Lichenstein, that’s what.
A Pizza Hut, A Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut is a wildly inventive and funny novel that counters the idea of the suburbs as a place queers leave and plays out the radical implications of staying put.
176 pages, Paperback
Published June 30, 2026
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June 29, 2026
4.5 - primarily read in suburban croydon. hesitant at first but hearing the author read chapter 1 at gtw let the tone and voices and intentions click into place for me. waidneresque sometimes, with beautiful absurdities and sudden phenomenal layering.
loved the weight & whimsy & time given to the ways we all philosophise in daily life - in cafe jobs & video games & other spaces where it is often not considered serious or academic enough to be “legitimate” or worthwhile philosophy. all counterbalanced by and intertwined with cynthia hyperacademic robotgirl.
very exciting time to be reading queer literature!
loved the weight & whimsy & time given to the ways we all philosophise in daily life - in cafe jobs & video games & other spaces where it is often not considered serious or academic enough to be “legitimate” or worthwhile philosophy. all counterbalanced by and intertwined with cynthia hyperacademic robotgirl.
very exciting time to be reading queer literature!
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June 26, 20263 stars (Not sure why it says it hasn't been released yet when it has...)
I enjoyed this a lot, I liked the unusual writing style and it wasn't like anything I had ever read before. I can't help but compare it to Greasepaint which I really enjoyed, and unfortunately this one didn't meet my high expectations. Also, despite enjoying the fun title, I have no idea why it is called that when there is no mention of a pizza hut or a KFC!
I enjoyed this a lot, I liked the unusual writing style and it wasn't like anything I had ever read before. I can't help but compare it to Greasepaint which I really enjoyed, and unfortunately this one didn't meet my high expectations. Also, despite enjoying the fun title, I have no idea why it is called that when there is no mention of a pizza hut or a KFC!
June 28, 2026
Café Nero is the centre of the universe.
Is this a dystopian/utopian/coming of age/end of time novel? God knows!!! But either way I liked it.
It is written at the speed my brain functions, at the speed of Gen Z thinking. An excited, anxious pace, a story riddled with robots and sexual tension.
To me, the story went a little something like this: She loves me, she loves me not. Does she love her robots more ? Am I exactly where I need go be? Am I bored? Should I move away? I think I’m happy staying put.
At points I felt as though I was both the author and the reader which I thoroughly enjoyed. Both voyeur and audience! How fun!
It’s rare we accept that moving home is not failure, that staying put can be exactly where we belong. We feel the need to outgrow our surroundings.
A tender and fun exploration of being young and queer and feeling both trapped and liberated by your small town surroundings. I enjoyed being part of a friendship group of free thinking creatives and robot nerds. Juvenile, horny but not at all cringey
3.5 out of five very warm and weird.
Is this a dystopian/utopian/coming of age/end of time novel? God knows!!! But either way I liked it.
It is written at the speed my brain functions, at the speed of Gen Z thinking. An excited, anxious pace, a story riddled with robots and sexual tension.
To me, the story went a little something like this: She loves me, she loves me not. Does she love her robots more ? Am I exactly where I need go be? Am I bored? Should I move away? I think I’m happy staying put.
At points I felt as though I was both the author and the reader which I thoroughly enjoyed. Both voyeur and audience! How fun!
It’s rare we accept that moving home is not failure, that staying put can be exactly where we belong. We feel the need to outgrow our surroundings.
A tender and fun exploration of being young and queer and feeling both trapped and liberated by your small town surroundings. I enjoyed being part of a friendship group of free thinking creatives and robot nerds. Juvenile, horny but not at all cringey
3.5 out of five very warm and weird.
June 30, 2026
This was far too fragmented for me and a lot of it just seemed pointless?I know that sounds harsh but that's how I felt whilst reading this.I think maybe the amount of ideas included just didn't work in such a short book.
Review of advance copy received from Indie Reviewers
ARC - wonderful utopian near-futurism
Review of advance copy
A spellbinding queer epic, hilarious and heart breaking, making heroes of working class people and celebrating queer, working class culture. Just extraordinary.
July 5, 2026
butch lichenstein = dreamboat xxx
(loved this book)
(loved this book)
July 9, 2026
4.5 ⭐️ a hilarious celebration of queer suburbia, feels like it’s teetering on the edge of explosive futurism.
not unlike white teeth in terms of structure/narrative?
not unlike white teeth in terms of structure/narrative?
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