![]() 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.īRYN GREENWOOD is a fourth-generation Kansan, and the daughter of a mostly reformed drug dealer. 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. 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.īy the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery. ![]() 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. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. ![]() It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. ![]() Watermark Books & Cafe will host author Bryn Greenwood for a reading and signing of All The Ugly and Wonderful Things on Tuesday, August 16 at 6:00 p.m.Ī 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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