This is a book I read a few years ago, written by Wally Lamb. It is a very good read, its about a girl growing up and coming of age durning the 50s and 60s. She has lots of body issues, its kinda hard to explain. I loved it.

Heres a brief synopsis of it.

"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 13, 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, 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.

This is a book I read a few years ago, written by Wally Lamb. It is a very good read, its about a girl growing up and coming of age durning the 50s and 60s. She has lots of body issues, its kinda hard to explain. I loved it.

Heres a brief synopsis of it.

"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 13, 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, 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.


Sounds like an interesting book. I should start to read somemore.

Sounds like an interesting book. I should start to read somemore.


Its well worth it. Give it a go.

He also wrote I Know This Much is True.  I like that one better than She's Come Undone

I read She's Come Undone.  I don't totally remember it but I did like the book. 

He also wrote I Know This Much is True.  I like that one better than She's Come Undone


I'e read both ans preferred Shes come undone. Have you read the collection of short stories from women in prison he also edited? The name escapes me right now.
I would love to see Shes come undone made into a movie.

I think it was an Oprah Winfrey Book Club book as I recall, way back in December 1996.  I never really read any of her recommendations except for Open House by Elizabeth Berg.