This book is about a girl named Dolores Price. She goes through many ups and downs throughout her life. She has probably been through anything you can think of. It all started when she was five years old. From her parents divorce, getting raped, and becoming 300lbs by the time she was 13. Later in her teenage years, her mother dies; she attempts college, and then ends up going to a mental hospital for 6 years of her adult life. From then she gets married, divorces after four years because of a cheating husband, and then after her grandmother's death, she moves back into her old home. Throughout all of these instances, she makes and loses many relationships.

Dolores Price is the main character in this book. She is a spitfire and doesn't really care what anybody thinks. Roberta, the lady that owns the tattoo parlor across the street thinks...