PDF / EPUB File Name: A_certain_hunger_-_Chelsea_G_Summers.pdf, A_certain_hunger_-_Chelsea_G_Summers.epub when dorothy says, that the men she devours were integral to her identity, and when dorothy says, emma was her best friend (because girls are taught they must have a best friend), i find it hard to believe this. there simply is little in the text to support this - there is not much to those dynamics that are meant to have shaped her into the person she is. there is just her word for it and with the way the prose has been built, she could tell us that her best friend is zaha hadid to the exact same effect.

When I was very young—long before I ever lost my virginity or even kissed a boy, around twelve, I think—I had a vision. I imagined throwing a lavish affair, a sort of punctuation mark on my adult life. I saw myself inviting all my lovers, present and past, to a dinner party. I knew even as puberty was dawning, fluffy and pointed as a kitten, that my life would be rich with men. These men, I imagined, would be plentiful, interesting, attractive, and, above all, devout. For the first time in more than a decade, I have a job—you can’t freelance in prison.Shaw-Ellis, Daisy; Weir, Keziah (December 2, 2020). "The Books and Totes That Will Get You Through This Winter". Vanity Fair . Retrieved 2020-12-02. So, I ding this a star (or maybe just half a star) for falling short as gripping narrative, but that’s almost beside the point.

One mark of psychopaths, or so I’ve learned, is that we calculate an action’s personal benefits before we take it, and it benefits me to proclaim my psychopathy, both in prison and out of it. Here at Bedford Hills, my psychopathy earns me a wide berth. There in the world, my psychopathy sells better than sex—and sex plus psychopathy, well, that’s a heady delight.Using a single point of view in a novel can heighten intensity, creating an immediate intimacy between character and reader. We learn to see the world through their eyes. This approach is particularly effective when the character is someone who lives outside the confines of society, as is the case with the charming sociopathic narrator of Chelsea G Summers’ debut novel A Certain Hunger.

a b c Livingstone, Josephine (2020-11-18). "When the Protagonist Is a Literal Man-Eater". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583 . Retrieved 2020-12-02. Dazzling and gruesome, Chelsea G. Summers has written a gripping tour de force about female friendship, haute cuisine, and how to filet a man and serve him with fine Italian wine. I could not put it down." - Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood even if we were to ignore this, it is clear that the relationships that the novel chooses to highlight are central or at least relevant to the plot - the book is simplistic that way. however, in that regard it does a lot of telling and very little showing. Okay, this book is about a woman embracing her inner self after decades of putting a lid on it... and so much more graphic. It's filled with dry humour, unhínged character behaviour and food getting in the middle of Dorothy's undoing, BUT it's addictive.this is a book about a female food critic (rad) who has a lot of sex (rad) and sometimes murders and eats men (admit it: also rad). this is particularly egregious when it comes to the descriptions and discussion of cannibalism. i wouldn't have minded a casual tone from a psychopath, i would not expect anything else from commercial fiction. but this sanitised writing style somehow strips an inherently transgressive act off of its transgressiveness. You won't soon forget Dorothy or her delicious insights, but fair warning: This book might turn you into a vegetarian, if you aren't already." - Library Journal (starred review) Other times it’s a more sustained academic critique. As she meditates at one point, “I could never be a mass murderer. Mass murder is gauche. Mass murder is to serial killing as McDonald’s is to Peter Luger. Both establishments serve chopped beef, but one is indiscriminate to the point of ubiquity whereas the other is carnal dining at its bespoke finest.”