A Certain Hunger

Dorothy Daniels is one of the most celebrated food critics in America, a woman who has spent her career chasing the finest, most transgressive pleasures a plate can offer. But food has never been the only appetite she indulges. From a lonely, watchful childhood in rural New Jersey through her rise in New York's culinary world, Dorothy has quietly satisfied a hunger for something far more forbidden — and far more dangerous.

Writing now from a prison cell, Dorothy narrates her own life with the same connoisseur's precision she once brought to restaurant reviews: unrepentant, wickedly funny, and utterly without shame about the men she has consumed, literally, along the way. She wants credit not for restraint but for artistry, and she wants the reader to understand her appetite as its own kind of genius rather than a monstrosity to be diagnosed.

Chelsea G. Summers's darkly comic debut is a feminist body-horror satire that fuses gourmet food writing with cannibalistic serial murder, narrated by a wholly unrepentant killer who insists on being savored rather than judged.