![]() ![]() Silverberg notes too that A Certain Hunger is "also a history of the internet, and how it has democratized writing and ‘steamrolled the playing field’ of criticism broadly." Style ‘Feminism comes to all things,’ she says, ‘but it comes to recognizing homicidal rage the slowest.’" Writing in The New Republic, Josephine Livingston also emphasized this dimension of the novel, saying it complicates "‘ironic misandry’ schtick" and transforms it "into something complicated and engaging." Instead of a conventional "rape-revenge plot, precision and passion Dorothy bring to murder have a stronger relation to her obsession with food: She has an intense sexual relationship with a kosher butcher, for example." ![]() In The New York Times, Amy Silverberg noted the feminist argument conveyed by the murderous protagonist: "Why is it that women have been kept out of so many industries, including Patrick Bateman-style serial murders? Because, Dorothy thinks, people don't want to believe women can do the job. Daniels narrates the story of her crimes from prison, moving back and forth in time between her life behind bars and the life that led to her imprisonment: specifically the food she ate, including eating men. The book follows food writer Dorothy Daniels, who is also a convicted serial killer. ![]()
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