All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / General / Greenwood, Bryn
On Shelf At: Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

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"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. Kellen may not be innocent, but he is the fixed point in Wavy and Donal's chaotic universe. Instead of playing it safe, Wavy has to learn to fight for Kellen, for her brother, and for herself"-- Provided by publisher.

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Good Read! submitted by tis94 on June 24, 2019, 4:09pm Disturbing and beautiful all at once. Maybe if I had children of my own I wouldn't like this story as much as I did.

So many trigger warnings! submitted by valeriemates on August 17, 2021, 12:15pm Oh my goodness, this book drew me in with absorbing writing about a small child -- and then it broke pretty much every societal taboo that I can think of.

The story is absorbing. I love how it is told by many different very likable people. I found myself caring deeply about characters who make choices that I would never make. But there are frightful scenes in this book, usually involving children, which are going to be burned into my mind for a long time. The story is so absorbing and the characters are so neat that I ended up glad that I read it all the way through. But I am not sure that I would recommend this book to anybody. It is pretty disturbing.