Half His Age, by Jennette McCurdy | Free Audiobook

When desire ignores every boundary

In Half His Age, number one New York Times bestselling author Jennette McCurdy delivers her provocative fiction debut exploring forbidden desire and destructive longing. Waldo is seventeen, trapped in an Alaskan trailer park where her single mother values men more than her own daughter. She works at Victoria's Secret and spends every paycheck on fast fashion purchases she instantly regrets, desperately trying to fill a void she cannot name.

Then Mr. Korgy enters her world. He is forty, her creative writing teacher, married with a child and dead dreams. Despite every rational reason to look away, Waldo fixates on him with consuming intensity. When she pursues him, crossing lines that should never be crossed, she initiates a relationship that is illegal, unethical, and psychologically damaging, yet feels like the only time she has ever truly been wanted.

Narrated by Jennette McCurdy herself in a raw, unflinching performance, this audiobook refuses to romanticize its deeply uncomfortable subject matter. This is not a love story. It is a searing examination of power dynamics, compulsive consumption, class struggles, and the desperate human need to be seen, exploring how age gap relationships exploit vulnerability while asking difficult questions about agency, desire, and the ways we harm ourselves seeking validation.