She's come undone, Wally Lamb
It took for-ever to track down this book, and it was definitely worth pining for. It was recommended to me by a teacher back in high school, and now I recommend it too bookworms everywhere.
Back of book description
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 rise 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 out own imperfections. She's come undone includes a promise: you will never forget Dolores Price.
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