Judy Ray Herzog's bold and gutsy narrative reflects how hunger, abuse, incest, abandonment, and the incarceration and murder of loved ones led to a hyper-sexualized existence, and how despite her hardships, she never lost her lust for life. A Wretch Like Me is a survival story with legs that will leave readers dancing on teardrops.

A Wretch Like Me is being hailed internationally as the first book to delve into "hunger porn," a genre author Heidi Cuda and co-author Marcia Fritz are credited with exposing by bridging the connection between hunger and sex.