A terrific book by Wally Lamb about Dolores Price, a depressed, overweight gal who, after numerous trials and tribulations, learns to find happiness and a more positive outlook for herself. She's Come Undone was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1992.

Lamb is able to go incredibly in-depth with this character and the roughest scenes in the book come across disturbingly real. Dolores deals with sexual abuse at a young age, and her mother is eventually placed into a mental institution. While living with her grandmother, Dolores gains weight, and through the rest of her life must fight the pounds and the cruelties of others due to her large size.

Another good book by Wally Lamb is "I Know This Much is True."

The title of the book comes from the song "Undun" by The Guess Who.

as dusk enfolds the trail
she climbs, until starlight melds
with the canopy, and severs flashlight spectrums
reaching into the sky, curving
into silver coils that bathe bare oak limbs
and her foggy breath became memories
of skinny suburban kids playing under sprinklers
camping in backyard sing a' longs
chanting Guns N' Roses to sliding glass doors,
where smiling parents swelled with lemonade
waiting for children's dreams to reach murky fruition
in college dorm rooms, energized with hormones
slaves to unknown thoughts that cling
like beer stains to white tee-shirts, before
professional entropy grips that cubicle of the mind
songs in the shower to sold out crowds
of imagined audiences, scream her name
to the rafters for encores, in voices that rise
and fall to the stage, rolling like quiet waves
at a vacation getaway, dancing in the air,
like the five pointed oak leaves that glide,
playfully to the grass,
outside her window.