I would highly suggest you pick this up for yourself. It definitely was not your typical "and they all lived happily ever after" type book. It had a lot of ups and downs, twists and turns. I would give this book 4/5 only because I'm mad at the ending! Like a good movie that just ends with no closure, yup, that's why I'm mad! Dumplin made me think about what I thought about myself and how I perceive others and how they perceive me.