Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel

• 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

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, a powerful novel by Bryn Greenwood, challenges all we know and believe about love. It tells 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.

Wavy, the daughter of a drug dealer, has learned not to trust people, not even her own parents. As she struggles to raise her little brother and be the responsible adult at just eight years old, Wavy finds solace in the night sky and her obsession with the constellations. However, one night, her star gazing leads to an accident when she witnesses a motorcycle wreck. This event leads to an unusual friendship with Kellen, one of her father's thugs who is a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold.

As Wavy grows into a teenager, her bond with Kellen becomes the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery. But when tragedy strikes her family, an aunt steps in, and the outside world views what is beautiful to Wavy as something ugly. This thought-provoking and heart-wrenching story challenges the perceptions of love and beauty.

The book has received several accolades, including being named one of the Top Ten Hottest Reads of 2016 by the New York Daily News and one of the Best Books of 2016 by the St. Louis Post Dispatch. It has also been hailed as one of the 31 Books Bringing the Heat that summer by Bustle.

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