This story travels along the life of Dolores Price from the age of 4 to 40. We meet Dolores as the innocent, oblivious child of a dysfunctional family during the 1950’s. Her mother’s unfortunate miscarriage sets the mood of the whole novel as it causes her mother to go insane. The mother puts a great deal of stress on Dolores’ father, which causes him to cheat on her and causes that marriage to ultimately end in divorce. Dolores is then sent to live with her grandmother, who she has never gotten along with in her entire life. Throughout this time that she spent with

After Dolores’ suicide attempt she spends seven years in a private mental hospital in Newport. After she has finally recovered both her equilibrium and her former slim self, she sets out to find her long lost obsession, Dante. She manages to somehow succeed in her plan on finding him and expresses her love towards him when they finally meet. After meeting Dolores, Dante begins to fall in love with her. Eventually Dolores and Dante get married, but it is a stressful abusive marriage for Dolores. Dante, who is a teacher, ends up having sex with one of his students and almost gets sued. Dolores eventually confesses to Dante that she stole his letters to Kippy while in college. Dante, who is very outraged at the fact that Dolores could do such a thing, leaves her and Dolores is left to begin a new life.

Dolores not only has a crush on Dante, but she has her first consensual sexual experience with a woman whose name was Dottie. Dottie was an overweight homosexual woman who guarded the dorms at night. Dolores and Dottie became better friends as they began to know each other more. After Dolores and Dottie had their first and only sexual encounter, Dolores felt trapped and didn’t know what was going on in her life. Dolores felt the only thing to do should be to run

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