What happens when a woman refuses to be likable, palatable, or contained?
In this episode of Lost & Found, we sink our teeth into Chelsea G. Summers’s provocative novel A Certain Hunger, a literary thriller about Dorothy Daniels, a glamorous food critic with big appetites: for food, for sex, and for human flesh.
Far more than a cannibalistic shocker, this book is a biting commentary on female desire, hunger, power, and storytelling itself. We unpack its themes one by one - female villainy as feminism, appetite as rebellion, consumption as intimacy, culinary satire, and the voyeuristic complicity of readers.
Along the way I will draw on feminist theory, cultural criticism, and my own reflections as a reader who laughed, cringed, journaled, and sometimes even craved espresso while turning the pages.
Polarizing, visceral, and unsettling, A Certain Hunger refuses to leave readers unchanged.
📚 Plus, the big reveal of the Lost & Found Book Club pick for September: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri.
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