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.

• We started tracking this book on January 18, 2016.
• This book was $12.99 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 29 times in the past 3,696 days.
• The current price of this book is $2.99 last checked 3 hours ago.
• The lowest price to date was $2.99 last reached on March 1, 2026.
• This book has been $2.99 13 times since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was $12.99 last reached on September 11, 2017.
• This book has been $12.99 4 times since we started tracking it.
• This book is currently at its lowest price since we started tracking it.

• Literature & FictionContemporary FictionLiterary
• Literature & FictionGenre FictionComing of Age

• Publication Date: August 9, 2016
• Text-to-Speech: Disabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 421 Pages
• File Size: 13 KB