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.
As the daughter of a drug dealer,
Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep
her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother,
Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. 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. After
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.
By the time Wavy is a teenager, her
relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts
and debauchery. 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. A powerful novel you won’t soon forget, Bryn Greenwood's All
the Ugly and Wonderful Things challenges all we know and believe about
love.
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