Wavy Quinn and her little brother Donal are the children of drug dealer Liam Quinn, owner of a lucrative meth lab enterprise, and his wife Val who craves drugs as much as her husband’s inconsistent love and attention. There is certainly enough to nitpick at the novel to make its central topic controversial. When you’re writing a first draft, if you let yourself worry even a tiny bit about what somebody else is going to think, you’ll freeze up.”īryn Greenwood, author of All the Ugly and Wonderful Things. I’m not the kind of person that worries about what anybody is going to think when I’m writing. “I have to distinguish between being aware and concerned of people’s reactions, because I certainly was aware how some people were going to feel about it,” Greenwood said. She knew that the topic of a younger girl and an older man falling in love surrounded by the violence and danger of a meth lab ring wasn’t necessarily going to be widely embraced, but clarifies that it didn’t deter her from telling the story the way she wanted to tell it. Greenwood didn’t particularly set out to be controversial when she began writing this novel. If you love books, are feeling a little lost right now, and would love some gentle comfort and guidance, join The Sanctuary, my seven-day course to rebalance your life.If you’re looking for a novel that has the potential to redefine and contradict what you think you know about falling in love and the potential damaging ripple caused by family, look no further than Bryn Greenwood’s new novel, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things.I'm also the author of Mountain Song: A Journey to Finding Quiet in the Swiss Alps, a book about my time living alone by the mountains.

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Like Where the Crawdads Sing, Educated has similar vibes of introspection, self-discovery, and finding your way as an outsider.Īs Alec MacGillis writes for The New York Times, “By the end, Westover has somehow managed not only to capture her unsurpassably exceptional upbringing, but to make her current situation seem not so exceptional at all, and resonant for many others.” This bestselling memoir is the story of a girl who, despite being kept out of school, finds a way to leave her Mormon anti-government survivalist family and earn a PhD from Cambridge University.

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