A Certain Hunger

Dorothy walked around Manhattan while Andrew’s buttocks were roasting at home. She scattered parcels of his skin in dumpsters behind restaurants. Two killings made her a serial killer, according to updated FBI criteria.

She killed Giovanni in December of 2000. The only fear she felt was about being caught. She was more careful with Andrew’s murder, which was satisfying, but it also annoyed her that no one could appreciate it. She wanted to kill him again, but, of course, he was already dead. Andrew’s death made her work harder on her second book, Voracious. She spent six weeks traveling and eating across America, which helped her with the loss of having killed him and never being able to do it again.

In 2008, Dorothy met with her Eat & Drink editor, Chloe James. Dorothy thought the purpose of the meeting was to end her sabbatical after finishing the manuscript for Voracious. Instead, Chloe let her go because Dorothy was too expensive. It was the most humiliating moment of her life, until her arrest.

After being laid off, Dorothy baked banana bread compulsively while planning various ways to destroy the magazine. Emma read about the firing and called Dorothy to tell her to get back to work.