Bryn Greenwood is a fourth-generation Kansan, and the daughter of a mostly reformed drug dealer. She earned an MA from Kansas State University and continues to work in academia as an administrator. She is the author of Last Will and All the Ugly and Wonderful Things. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in The New York Times, Chiron Review, Kansas Quarterly, Karamu, and The Battered Suitcase. She lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
If you're looking for a dangerous, shocking, and unexpectedly
touching story, this is it...This is a book that will shake you to
the core. --Bustle 31 Books Bringing the Heat this Summer
Captivating and smartly written from the first page, Greenwood's
work is instantly absorbing. Pithy characters saunter, charge or
stumble into each scene via raw, gripping narrative. Greenwood
slow-drips descriptions, never giving away everything at once.
--Christina Ledbetter, The Associated Press This book destroyed me.
I have never read anything like it. I came to the end of the novel
with my mind-reeling, my emotions scattered, and completely unsure
exactly what I did feel about it...but one thing is certain: I
felt. Oh hell, I felt. I don't think I'll ever get these characters
off my mind. --Emily May, #1 Worldwide most popular reviewer,
Goodreads The title says it all. You will hold your little heart in
your hands and keep blowing on it to make sure it's alive. --The
Top Ten Hottest Reads of 2016, New York Daily News
This is one of those books whose story, if you heard about it on
the news or glimpsed some sensationalist headline, would be
horrifying, but in THIS book, with THESE characters, where you are
privy to interior monologues and backstories and a hundred examples
of what defines them as people, it makes sense. It's two damaged
people finding something in the other that answers a need, and it's
unexpectedly touching. It's so, so impressive. --Karen, #1 US most
popular reviewer, Goodreads The stirring Bryn Greenwood's All the
Ugly and Wonderful Things, so freakishly good and dangerous that it
should come with a warning label... the writing is direct and
muscular, a snake with all the slithery danger of a coiled rattler
on a hot rock. VERDICT Greenwood (from Kansas, daughter of a
"mostly reformed drug dealer") astounds in creating a world where
assorted murderers, felons, and thieves are sympathetic. --Library
Journal Bryn Greenwood has handed readers a strange - but strangely
grabbing - tale. --Harry Levins, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Best of
2016 Greenwood's haunting novel...is a story that will stay with
readers long after the book is finished. --Lisa McLendon, The
Wichita Eagle [A] powerful, provocative debut...intelligent,
honest, and unsentimental. --Kirkus Reviews (STARRED) An
emotionally resonant novel with an unlikely cast of characters you
won't soon forget. Bryn Greenwood's unique voice and her
understanding of human nature offer an amazing tale of family,
loss, and love that's as unpredictable and inspiring as love
itself. --Brunonia Barry, New York Times bestselling author of The
Lace Reader Written in lyrical and searingly honest prose, Bryn
Greenwood tells a powerful story of love and resilience against the
bleakest of backdrops. Like the best fiction, this is a novel that
means to disturb and challenge as it forces us to look with
compassion on every last one of its flawed, memorable characters. I
was captivated from the first page to the last. --Patry Francis,
three time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and author of The Orphans
of Race Point
Gritty and dark and tough and uncomfortable, but it's brilliantly
constructed...Greenwood develops an incredible and resilient
character in Wavy. It's an outstanding debut novel and I am itching
for Greenwood's next book. --Kelly Jensen, Book Riot Greenwood is a
gifted writer, and Wavy's story will stick to your bones long after
you put this book down. These characters will fast become friends,
and you will find yourself reluctant to leave their ugly and
wonderful little world. --Madeline Lemieux, Creative Loafing
Charlotte Incredible book alert...Another true page turner as
Greenwood takes her reader on an emotional bungee jump that
requires you to decide for yourself what you can and can not accept
given the grimmest of circumstances. (5 out of 5 stars) --Erin
Woodward, The Girly Book Club All the Ugly and Wonderful Things is
just that: ugly and wonderful all at the same time. An epic love
story...This book will be the birth of a vibrant debate about the
law and societal norms as your book club members will truly be
divided by the actions of our male lead. I'd love to be a fly on
the wall for this one! --InStyle UK "Achingly raw and beautifully
written, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things is both a hypnotic
coming-of-age story and a heartbreaking tragedy. Greenwood's
emotional prose and her well-drawn characters immediately drew me
in and kept me captivated. I'm still thinking about Wavy, and her
ugly and wonderful world, long after I've turned the last page."
--Jillian Cantor, author of Margot and The Hours Count Bryn
Greenwood is so good it hurts. Her writing is lean, precise,
elegant and dripping with the telling detail-the understated bit of
dialogue that reveals everything. --Robert Ferrigno, New York Times
bestselling author of Monkey Boyz, Horse Latitudes, the Prayer for
the Assassin trilogy and other novels The author skillfully creates
widely varied and original voices... a memorable coming-of-age tale
about loyalty, defiance, and the power of love under the most
improbable circumstances. --Publishers Weekly
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