In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wi
ld ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly co
mical 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.
