When tragedy rips Wavy's family apart, a well-meaning aunt steps in, and what is beautiful to Wavy looks ugly under the scrutiny of the outside world.Ī powerful novel you won’t soon forget, Bryn Greenwood's All the Ugly and Wonderful Things challenges all we know and believe about love. ( From the publisher.

Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing causes an accident.Īfter witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold.īy the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery. All the Ugly and Wonderful Things a book by Bryn Greenwood 25,706,219.72 raised for local bookstores All the Ugly and Wonderful Things Bryn Greenwood (Author) FORMAT Paperback English 15.99 14.87 MP3 CD English 19.99 Library Binding English Large Print 36. Why I'm Proud to Have My Books Called 'Crime Fiction' For poor folks, crime is sometimes the only option. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, Last Will, and Lie Lay Lain. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight.

A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the Midwestern meth lab backdrop of their lives.Īs the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents.

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