TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greenwood,Bryn
TI  - All the ugly and wonderful things
SN  - 9781250074133 (hardcover)
AV  - PS3607.R4695 A79 2016
U1  - 813/.6 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martins Press
KW  - Children of drug addicts
KW  - Fiction
KW  - FICTION / Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Coming of Age
KW  - Domestic fiction
N2  - "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"--
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