In this New York Times bestselling extraordinary coming-of-age
odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of
love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to
come along in years.
"Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and
troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was
delivered...."
Meet Dolores Price. She's thirteen, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid
her childhood goodbye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV,
she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars,
potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally
rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and
life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the
occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly
up.
In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to
hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most
heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. At once a
fragile girl and a hard-edged cynic, so tough to love yet so inimitably
lovable, Dolores is as poignantly real as our own imperfections. She's
Come Undone includes a promise: you will never forget Dolores Price.
