And other people haven't read it, and they disapprove of the basic concept." "A lot of people hate it because they read it and they don't in any way want to sympathize with the situation. "A lot of people really hate it," Bryn Greenwood tells Bustle. It's a novel that asks readers to step outside their comfort zones and step inside Wavy and Kellen's world without judgment. Greenwood's novel is about ugly things - mental illness, family discord, child abuse - and wonderful things, like the vast, healing powers of unconditional love and understanding. But that definition doesn't do justice to the breadth of this painful, beautiful novel about two lonely, lost people who find their place with each other.ĭespite the inevitable comparisons to Lolita, Greenwood's novel is not about pedophilia or the victimization of a young girl by an older man, and Kellen is not like Humbert Humbert.
Simply described, All The Ugly and Wonderful Things is the story of how Wavy, the young daughter of a drug dealer and his abusive wife, and Kellen, a loner, drug runner, and ex-con, fall in love. Wavy, a cherubic child with porcelain skin, doe eyes, and fair, golden hair, is just eight-years-old when her love story begins to unfold in Bryn Greenwood's haunting new novel, All The Ugly and Wonderful Things, out Aug.
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