A Certain Hunger: a novel

Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and smart, Dorothy’s mastery of the culinary arts makes her more likely to whip up an inspired dish than most of the chefs she writes about. But there is something eles that makes Dorothy different, and having suppressed it long enough, she starts to embrace what makes her 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.