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"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 won’t soon forget, Bryn Greenwood's All the Ugly and Wonderful Things challenges all we know and believe about love."
This book was simply brilliant, and no, it is not about a pedophile. It begins when Wavy is just 5 years old and ends when she is 21.What can I say about Wavy. She was a beautiful, broken, fragile yet incredibly strong child. Born into neglect and abuse in the back seat of a strangers car. Her mother, a mentally unstable junkie, was in and out of her life. Her on again off again father operates a meth lab. It was their parenting skills that taught Wavy it was best to never speak, and made her unable to tolerate being touched. People tend to think something is wrong with her, that she is mentally challenged, but there is a mind as sharp as a tack behind that wall of silence. There is also a fierce love for her baby brother who she does her best to protect and take care of.
She is still only a child when she meets Kellen after witnessing his motorcycle accident. Kellen is a young man with a hot temper, a criminal history, and a heart of gold. When he sees the conditions Wavy is living in, he makes it his mission to help her as best he can. As others begin to view their relationship as unnatural, they are beginning to fall in love.
The story is told through the point of view of multiple characters, which helps to see that what is ugly is in the eye of the beholder, and one person's ugly is another person's wonderful.
5 out of 5 stars from me.
I received a complimentary copy for review
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 won’t soon forget, Bryn Greenwood's All the Ugly and Wonderful Things challenges all we know and believe about love."
This book was simply brilliant, and no, it is not about a pedophile. It begins when Wavy is just 5 years old and ends when she is 21.What can I say about Wavy. She was a beautiful, broken, fragile yet incredibly strong child. Born into neglect and abuse in the back seat of a strangers car. Her mother, a mentally unstable junkie, was in and out of her life. Her on again off again father operates a meth lab. It was their parenting skills that taught Wavy it was best to never speak, and made her unable to tolerate being touched. People tend to think something is wrong with her, that she is mentally challenged, but there is a mind as sharp as a tack behind that wall of silence. There is also a fierce love for her baby brother who she does her best to protect and take care of.
She is still only a child when she meets Kellen after witnessing his motorcycle accident. Kellen is a young man with a hot temper, a criminal history, and a heart of gold. When he sees the conditions Wavy is living in, he makes it his mission to help her as best he can. As others begin to view their relationship as unnatural, they are beginning to fall in love.
The story is told through the point of view of multiple characters, which helps to see that what is ugly is in the eye of the beholder, and one person's ugly is another person's wonderful.
5 out of 5 stars from me.
I received a complimentary copy for review
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