A Certain Hunger

A friend who I share books with all the time and who has directed plays I wrote, handed me this book and said, "YOU would love this." Always curious how people perceive my tastes, I opened to the first sentence, and here's what I got: "They all look the same, hotel bars, even when they don't."

Yep, I'm in.

Chelsea Summers' protagonist is telling her story from prison where she will live out her life for the multiple murders of her lovers. The thing is, she also ate some of them. But Dorothy Daniels is not your everyday cannibal. She… show more.

An engrossing read about a food critic’s life, bumpy career, and murders. There is death and consumption, sex and violence; there is depravity in the mundane. Sometimes voices sparkle, others pop off the page, and then there is Chelsea G. Summer’s Dorothy Daniels. She dug into my brain and picked at it like a scab. From the first page, Summers hooked me on a razor-sharp fishing line. Dorothy recounts stories like an old friend would—if your old friend would describe killing a man and her vagina in equal parts disturbing and eloquent language. There was disgust but also a sense… show more.