A Certain Hunger

This book was gruesome. It was gross, even frustrating at times. Our speaker was pretentious and self important. But all of this was so well written and purposeful. I have never read a book that makes me HATE the narrator and also sincerely understand her (in some ways). While Dorothy was a gruesome murderer, she was also insightful in her understanding of womanhood. Even if her knowledge of woman was centered around their violence, I still found that information profound and unique.

I will say, whenever I was totally immersed in the story, there were allusions that were impossible to understand and were pretty important to the context. Places, people, foods, even entire sentences in other languages. I don't think I could get through this book if I looked up everything I didn't know. Ultimately, I found myself glazing over half of paragraphs, speeding through pages about foods that (didn't really matter and) I had never heard of. I understand this was part of her character though which is why I still think this is a 5 star book!!