A Certain Hunger -

Chelsea G. Summers

The Unnamed Press

2019

240 páginas

8h 0m

ISBN-13: 9781951213145

Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Dorothy's clear mastery of the culinary arts make it likely that she could, on any given night, whip up a more inspired dish than any one of the chefs she writes about.

Dorothy loves sex as much as she loves food, and while she has struggled to find a long-term partner that can keep up with her, she makes the best of her single life, frequently traveling from Manhattan to Italy for a taste of both. But there is something within Dorothy that's different from everyone else, and having suppressed it long enough, she starts to embrace what makes Dorothy uniquely, terrifyingly herself.

Recounting her life from a seemingly idyllic farm-to-table childhood, the heights of her career, to the moment she plunges an ice pick into a man's neck on Fire Island, Dorothy Daniels show us what happens when a woman finally embraces her superiority.

A satire of early foodieism, a critique of how gender is defined, and a showcase of virtuoso storytelling, Chelsea G. Summers' A Certain Hunger introduces us to the food world's most charming psychopath and an exciting new voice in fiction.

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3 (Bom)

Tão cru quando um livro do Bukowski, com a mesma vibe de "My sister, the serial killer" e tão sangrento quanto You (a série, pelo menos). Esse livro traz o que eu espero ser uma sátira feminista, sobre a maneira como subestimam as mulheres na sociedade. A ideia é muito interessante e é uma boa leitura, porém acho que em alguns momentos a escrita estava meio arrastada. Acho que esse conceito teria funcionado melhor como um conto do que como um romance.