A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers, review: Psychopathic food critic deliciously skewers men
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'Journalist and debut author Chelsea G Summers once wrote that “2014 was the year that misandry got chic”, charting a course from Gone Girl’s criminal mastermind Amy to Taylor Swift’s knife-wielding persona in Blank Space.
I was anticipating this zeitgeisty, nail-polish-emoji brand of feminist vengeance when I heard about Summers’ first novel, billed as “Eat, Pray, Love meets American Psycho“. While duly sating that desire, the novel also gives voice to a certain form of misandry that cannot be dismissed as merely fashionable.
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If “misandry” is defined not as the hatred of men, but as rage against the patriarchal order, might anger be a critically useful emotion, in that it warns us that something is wrong? Misandry like this could catalyse positive social action, as well as more great novels.'
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