She is brought to despair

We are in front of Dolores Price, and she is only 4 years old. The girl’s practically cloudless childhood ends with the death of a newborn brother... A few years later her parents will divorce, and her mother will get into the Clinic of Nervouss. The author of Wally Lamb will follow Dolores for almost 30 years, more and more revealing her character, demonstrating the nuances of her feelings and shades of emotions. The heroine will have to survive a lot: the collapse of children's hopes, rape, a rapid weight gain (by the end of the school, Dolores will weigh 116 kilograms!), The loneliness and attacks of peers, the sudden death of the mother... and later - in college and in adulthood - a girl at every turn They will wait for betrayal and disappointment... No wonder her name means "marked with sadness, sadness or sorrow." However, having reached the “bottom”, Dolores will nevertheless find the strength to push off and swim to the surface. And the readers, having met this book, are often very surprised: how the author-man managed to penetrate the female soul so deeply and psychologically accurately describe the inner world of the main one heroine? And to note its strength and courage that will conduct it through all the trials...