![]() ![]() It really gave me empathy for some very unpleasant people. Your writing style is very short chapters from different characters' points of view, so readers get into the minds of all of these people. She doesn’t know where food’s coming from, she doesn’t know who’s taking her to school, any of those things." There’s always a constant element of chaos. ![]() ![]() She’s surrounded by people who work for her father, various hangers on. ![]() She knows a lot more about the world than most people do. "She’s five and has already seen a lot of things. When these two people meet, the girl, Wavy, is how old? Which apparently turns out to be problematic for a lot of readers." "My go-to phrase is that it’s a book about a lonely girl and a lonelier man and what they do to form a family. How do you describe All the Ugly and Wonderful Things? Below are some highlights of that conversation. Greenwood recently spoke with me on KCUR's Central Standard. Since it was published in August, the book has drawn intensely mixed reactions from readers, some of whom are revolted by the relationship at its center and others who are moved by Greenwood's ability to write so authentically about such a difficult subject. Lawrence writer Bryn Greenwood’s novel All the Ugly and Wonderful Thingsis a love story between a grade-school girl and a drug-running biker in his twenties, set on a meth-making compound in the rural Midwest. ![]()
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