The release date for the English version of 'All the Ugly and Wonderful Things' by
Bryn Greenwood is Aug 2016. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A heartwarming and thought-provoking tale of two unexpected individuals falling in love and their difficult relationship that lifts them out of their lives' Midwest meth lab setting.
Wavy, a drug dealer's daughter, is aware that nobody, not even her own parents, can be trusted. It would be safer if she remained hidden and kept her lips shut. As she battles to nurture her younger brother Donal, eight, Wavy is the only mature adult in the vicinity. She is fascinated with constellations and finds solace in the starry sky over the fields behind her home, but one night she commits an accident while stargazing. She makes an odd connection with one of her father's goons, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a golden heart, after seeing his motorbike crash.
By the time Wavy reaches adolescence, her bond with Kellen represents the only tenderness amid a harsh world of drug abuse and promiscuity. A well-meaning aunt intervenes when tragedy tears apart Wavy's family, making what Wavy finds lovely seem ugly to the outside world. Bryn Greenwood's All the Ugly and Wonderful Things is a profound book that will stick in your memory because it questions everything we've been taught about love.