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She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb is a suspenseful novel about an extraordinary girl named Dolores Price, who grew up facing many tragedies and tribulations. The book follows her life from the age of four to forty and shows how she grows and matures as she becomes older. Right from the beginning years of her life, Dolores finds difficulty in trying to understand love, lust, and betrayal. Her father leaves the family for another woman, her mother, an emotionally fragile woman, battles mental illness after the miscarriage of her second child, and her grandma, strong and proud, tries to enforce her conventional beliefs on her family. On top of that, at only 13, Dolores forms a friendship with her older, handsome neighbor, Jack Speight, who ultimately changes the coa