From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A RIVER IS WAITING and celebrated for two Oprah Book Club selections, comes this powerful coming-of-age novel.
Meet Dolores Price. She's thirteen, wise-mouthed but wounded. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the chocolate, crisps 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 his extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch an incredible 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 loveable, Dolores is as poignantly real as our own imperfections.
PRAISE FOR WALLY LAMB:
'[Wally Lamb's] incandescent writing can illuminate even the darkest of stories.' OPRAH DAILY
‘With an unflinching eye and an unsentimental compassion for his characters, Wally Lamb finds glimmers of hope and healing and decency in the darkest places.’ TOM PERROTTA, New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers and Little Children
‘Lamb delivers what’s most needed in these turbulent times—an absolute empathy bomb.’ BETH MACY, author of Dopesick and Raising Lazarus
‘Time and time again, the amazing Wally Lamb’s imperfect people break our hearts and help us understand the unfathomable depths of guilt and grief as we look for light in the world.’ ALICE HOFFMAN, New York Times bestselling author of The Practical Magic series
- 472 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise for Wally Lamb’s
- Tital Pages
- Dedication
- She’s Come Undone
- Contents
- An Introduction to the 20th Anniversary Edition: She’s Still Out There
- Part One: Our Lady of Sorrow
- Part Two: Whales
- Part Three: The Flying Leg
- About Wally Lamb
- Copyright
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