You can skip this one. If you get the talking book version on cds, you can skip it across the surface of the nearest large body of water you can find, until it sinks. As it sinks you might hear a voice sounding like Oprah saying " this is the beautiful, unconventional and ultimately life glug affirming glug story of a woman glug glug who endures glug glerg every tribulation glag glag which Wally Lamb could think glug of having studied daytime gluuuurgggg soaps for a year......glgg...rape....ggggg....self-harm......ggg...mental hospital....ggg......" 
 until finally, all that can be heard is the tweeting of an odd looking bird in a nearby bush. Its curiously unmusical trill sounds like 
 youfellforthehypeagain! 
 youfellforthehypeagain! 
 youfellforthehypeagain!