ALL THE UGLY AND WONDERFUL THINGS BY BRYN GREENWOOD

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things is an unexpected, controversial, and overwhelmingly beautiful novel of a love that runs so deep it’s hard for others to understand.

Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: August 9, 2016
Genre: Literary Fiction. Taboo/Age Gap Romance.
Series: None. Complete Standalone. 
Pages: 421 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Purchased. ​

​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 

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