In a way, it is the vulgar and odd honesty what makes this book great: Dorothy feels no shame (or guilt) in recollecting events that most would never dare to speak about. Summers) uses a shocking language that tends to catch off the reader when we least expect it (e.g., sexual content, absurd yet strange descriptions and so on). Summers manages to captivate the readers even with a palpable lack of dialogues throughout the novel一 after all, this book does not rely on that sort of writing technique. The premise of this book is quirky like no other: do we often read about 50+ years old women eating their different lovers? With exquisite writing, Chelse G. Worry not: she states early in her writings that she was indeed the one behind every crime that got her arrested. Dorothy, our main character, writes from jail the events of her life that have led her to such a place. Bizarre, grotesque and satirical, “A certain hunger” narrates the story of a food critic, a serial killer and a cannibal, all like.
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