Meet Dolores Price. She's thirteen, 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 supplied by her anxious mother. 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.

In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites listeners to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with a heartbreakingly comical heroine.