Chelsea G. Summers
Chelsea G. Summers Gives Us the Literary Female Psychopath We’ve Been Waiting For
The debut author chatted with Alma about writing violent women, kosher butchers, food critics, and so much more.
A Certain Hunger, the debut novel from Chelsea G. Summers, tells the story of Dorothy, a food critic and food writer who also happens to be a psychopath. I mean that quite literally: Summers has crafted a wicked tale of a woman who murders her lovers — and then eats them.
As I wrote in my winter books preview, while the premise may sound shocking, it’s a compulsively readable novel from start to finish. A Certain Hunger joins a long line of stories narrated by criminals, but this is the first, that I can recall, of a fantastically nuanced female psychopath.
