Description
A haunting, intimate exploration of desire and survival, this novel follows a woman navigating the pull between what she needs and what she’s been taught to want. As her life collides with hunger—emotional, physical, and spiritual—she confronts the forces that shape her choices and the costs of staying silent. With lyrical intensity and sharp psychological insight, the story traces themes of power, intimacy, and self-reinvention, asking what it means to be both consumed and capable of change. Certain Hunger blends character-driven tension with a distinctive, contemporary voice that lingers long after the final page.
Available Editions
paperback
HewesHeiser
Published Jan 1, 2020
ISBN: 9781951213152
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Community Reviews(1)
dnf at 46%. there isn’t a single thing i can say that the 1 and 2 star reviews haven’t already said. the narrator is so deeply unlikable that i have to commend summers for capturing the pretentiousness of a boomer/gen x cusp egomaniac. what summers did fail to do though was make a character worth reading about. dorothy calls herself a “howling void” and doubles down on her intellectual and sexual superiority, which she won’t stop force feeding her reader without a single allegorical symbol. i am more familiar with dorothy’s vagina than i am with the parts under the hood of the car i’ve owned for the last 12 years. her entire story is direct, but passed through a word salad cheese grater; because of course she needs you to know she’s an excellent author—disregard that a good author makes their books readable rather than a mental exercise in misused, antiquated language. it turns out her “howling void” is nothing more than a complete lack of personality and a somehow boring recounting of her sex life and cannibalism.
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First Published
2020
Language
eng
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