num_pages: 432
description: 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 wont soon forget Bryn Greenwood's All the Ugly and Wonderful Things challenges all we know and believe about love.
language: English
title: All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
publisher: Thomas Dunne Books