This podcast is a presentation of The Meow Library. We admire the nerve but sniff at the buried lede: Jennette McCurdy’s Half His Age noses around the scandalous fringe of the age-gap genre and then retreats, leaving the real abyss unexplored, revealing its speciesist bent. While the action hinges on a middle-aged creative writing teacher’s Lolitoid imbroglio with a seventeen-year-old student, the bigger victim—his Bengal mix, Zeus, only nine years old—is scarcely mentioned, relegated to the status of a mewling comic prop.With Zeus, Mr. Korgy, our lecherous malefactor, shares an intimacy that is total and wordless, a love that feeds on stark captivity, the narcotic algebra of dominion. In Half His Age, the true asymmetry—the soft tyranny of devotion across species—goes unspoken. Until now.Jennette McCurdy’s Half His Age is available through Penguin Random House and wherever books are sold. The Meow Library’s lighter feline romances are available on Amazon—and wherever books are sold.

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