She's Come Undone

Wally Lamb

Apr 2011 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

Wally Lamb writes so beautifully, the intricacy of his characters, especially psychiatrists, teachers & parents including their own flaws is addicting. My favorite aspect of this book is different types of people interacting and the resulting kindness, especially when it comes to black and gay people. Dolores grandma falling on her black seatmate and accidentally touching his afro, "... It's softness,' and Mr. Pucci's advice, "Take the love, take the milkshake," made me so happy.

I haven't read it yet and I know I'm suppose to read it first then comment on the book : sorry my bad🎃 . but I'm going to save to get this book. I think it will help my only myself over And over again but All so my son best friend and my( adopted I kids) up tell a couple years ago we raised are kids like siblings ... After there quick decision one night they all packed up my family into there truck and moved to Texas from Utah... See the past the hurts the worst is 10 years a ago I lost my husband and twin babys. Leaving me and my oldest. Grieving big time when my kids and best friend left me it opened that big wound open all over again.... But me and my son. Are fighters and rely on the other if one needs to rest. The other one stands strong together ... At the end of the day "LONELY IS STILL JUST AS PAINFUL"

I was introduced to Dolores when I was 14..we've always had our share of parallels..now I'm 31 and this book still makes me feel the same emotions, in the same moments-- nothing has changed, yet everything has changed. I thank Wally Lamb for this book..it has saved me from myself time and time again. Sure it's filled with sadness but there are moments of strength, moments of anger, and genuine moments of love. I would recommend this book to every woman.

About the author

Wally Lamb is the author of six New York Times bestselling novels: I’ll Take You There, We Are Water, Wishin’ and Hopin’, The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much is True, and She’s Come Undone. Lamb also edited Couldn’t Keep It to Myself and I’ll Fly Away, two volumes of essays from students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a women’s prison in Connecticut, where he has been a volunteer facilitator for seventeen years. Lamb lives in Connecticut with his wife, Christine, and they have three sons.