From the #1New York Timesbestselling author ofIm Glad My Mom Diedcomes a sad, funny, thrilling novel about sex, consumerism, class, desire, loneliness, the internet, rage, intimacy, power, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths well go to in order to get what we want.

Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher 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 doesnt know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesnt? Or is it purer than that, rooted in their unlikely connection, their kindred spirits, the similar filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, its just enough that he sees her when no one else does.

Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant,Half His Ageis a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstaclesor attempts to overcome themin her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved.

Jennette McCurdyis the#1 New York Timesbestselling author ofIm Glad My Mom Died, winner of the 2023 American Library Association Alex Award. The book has been published in more than thirty countries and has sold more than three million copies. McCurdy is creating, writing, executive producing, and showrunning an Apple TV+ series loosely inspired byIm Glad My Mom Died, starring Jennifer Aniston.Half His Ageis her debut novel.

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publish Date: January 20, 2026
• Pages: 288
• Language: English
• Type: Hardcover
• EAN/UPC: 9780593723739
• Dimensions: 8.3 X 5.5 X 0.7 inches | 0.9 pounds
• BISAC Categories: Popular Fiction, Literary Fiction