All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

All the Ugly and Wonderful ThingsA New York Times and USA Today bestseller Book of the Month Club 2016 Book of the Year Second Place Goodreads Best Fiction of 2016 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.

normally glamorous and full of life

"A dazzling new world of fate

As Lucie tries to out-maneuver Tristan in the boardroom and the bedchamber

She escaped to a new school

It absolutely charmed me

thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond

They are expecting an orphan boy to help with the work at Green Gables - but a skinny red-haired girl turns up instead

a shattering novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and a dangerous passion

Annie reconsiders her dream guy

and its significance

who ran bleeding through the woods to escape the massacre at Pine Cottage

where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality