She’s Come Undone
Wally Lamb
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She’s Come Undone
Wally Lamb
2 ratings • 1 reviews
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. Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded 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 orbits 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 she really goes under.
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I won't comment much (I enjoyed the novel mostly) except that there was definitely an inaccuracy with the hippie girl's claim that Joni Mitchell was behind her in line for the portapotty at Woodstock. Joni Mitchell for a fact didn't go to Woodstock!! She instead did a tv interview and hated herself desperately for choosing that over Woodstock (cuz all her friends went.) She then wrote a wistful song about Woodstock, which would explain the misunderstanding. It just reminded me that these are made up characters.
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