![]() ![]() Instead of playing it safe, Wavy has to learn to fight for Kellen, for her brother, and for herself. Despite the cost of cut flowers (in terms of toll on climate and human labor), author Katy Kelleher adores them. Kellen may not be innocent, but he is the fixed point in Wavy and Donal's chaotic universe. ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. By the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery. 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. 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. 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. Lawrence writer Bryn Greenwood ’s novel All the Ugly and Wonderful. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. In her novel All The Ugly And Wonderful Things, Bryn Greenwood explores the idea of child sovereignty and consent. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. "As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. ![]()
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