Her mother is a wasted, traumatized addict.
Heroine Wavonna “Wavy” Quinn is quiet and untrusting, scarred by her upbringing on a methamphetamine-making compound but possessing some of the same resilience, strong will and sense of responsibility that defined 17-year-old Ree Dolly in Daniel Woodrell’s Ozarks-set “Winter’s Bone” (though Wavy is years younger through most of the book). “All the Ugly and Wonderful Things,” her third published novel, offers neither comfort nor convention. “I think maybe that shocked me the most, the fact that someone who was a writer and someone I imagined would be familiar with the experience of people judging your work unread would be willing to do the same thing,” Greenwood says. Their romance turns physical when she is 13.
Others, including a woman identifying herself as a fellow writer, lashed out after merely hearing about the book and its central relationship between a young girl damaged by a dysfunctional home life and a rough, motorcycle-riding mechanic and drug-ring henchman who is far too many years older. Some who fired off disapproving emails, tweets and Facebook messages had read “All the Ugly and Wonderful Things” and, for the most part, Greenwood says, she had no real quarrel with them.
In “All the Ugly and Wonderful Things,” a young girl from a deeply troubled rural family finds solace and consistency in the constellations.Ĭourtney blowback started in June, not long after advance copies of Bryn Greenwood’s new novel started showing up in the mailboxes of booksellers and reviewers around the country.
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