Title: Good debut novel based on relentless string of tragedies
Product review: ...but in spite of one disaster following close upon the heels of another throughout 7/8 of the book, you end us hooked, rooting for loser Dolores Price to find a way out of her miserable life. Already deeply disturbed by the time she enters grade school, things continue to go downhill for Dolores as her father walks out, her mother has a nervous breakdown, and Dolores is shipped to her rigidly conservative grandmother in Rhode Island. Rape, obesity, self-hate, attempted suicide, a mental institution - what more could happen to this woman? But it's the good writing, the first person POV that somehow maintains a wry, bleak, self-deprecating sense of humor, that keeps us reading through this loooong book. It's worth it.
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