Reddit reviews She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club)

Sounds like that Oprah book, She Comes Undone, by Wally Lamb

>In this engaging first novel, narrator Dolores Price recounts her life story from age four to age 40. The troubled product of a stormy marriage, she is already sipping Maalox in grade school. Then her father walks out on her mother, who suffers a nervous collapse, and Dolores moves to her repressive grandmother's house in Rhode Island. By the time she reaches eighth grade, she has only one friend: a boarder who eventually rapes her. Anesthetizing herself with junk food and soap operas, Dolores becomes an obese, isolated young woman who attempts suicide during her first semester in college and spends seven years in a mental institution. Oddly enough, this relentless parade of disasters makes for interesting reading. The author keenly evokes his protagonist's profound alienation and self-loathing, endowing Dolores with a bleak sense of humor that keeps readers rooting for her. Ironically, the book itself "comes undone" as its heroine develops self-esteem, at which point an absorbing portrait of a woman on a collision course with her problems turns into a disappointing series of cliches about love, forgiveness and Dolores's ticking biological clock. Nonetheless, this is a promising debut. ( July )

My favorite book at the moment is She's Come Undone. It's fiction, I don't really know what to tell you about it, it's just really good.

My Favorite Book!

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Realistic fiction, since I've done a lot of fantasy in this thread. I'm a big fan of Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone will probably make you cry, and no book has ever spoken to me like I Know This Much is True.

Ok. I am going to recommend Room by Emma Donoghue. It was one of the most amazing and disturbing books I have ever read. It is fiction. It is about a boy who was born and grew up in one room, his mother was kidnapped and they are kept in secret by their captor. It it told from the voice of the boy and how he grows up and what his world is like when the whole world is just his room. I won't give any spoilers but this book is unforgettable.

One more because I can't resist. The second is She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. It is a coming of age type story but unlike any I have read before. It was one of my favorite books ever, but also depressing. I like books that really make me FEEL, whether it is happy or sad and this one really got to me.