All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Greenwood

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Greenwood

- A New York Times and USA Today bestseller
- Book of the Month Club 2016 Book of the Year
- Second Place Goodreads Best Fiction of 2016

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.

31 Books Bringing the Heat this Summer --Bustle

Top Ten Hottest Reads of 2016 --New York Daily News

Best Books of 2016 --St. Louis Post Dispatch

BRYN GREENWOOD is the daughter of a mostly repentant drug dealer and a fourth-generation Kansan. She holds a master's degree from Kansas State University and continues to work as an administrator in higher education. The New York Times, Chiron Review, Kansas Quarterly, Karamu, and The Battered Suitcase have all published her essays and short stories. Final Will and The Battered Suitcase are Bryn's works. She currently resides in Lawrence, Kansas.