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. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in The New York Times, Chiron Review, Kansas Quarterly, Karamu, and The Battered Suitcase. Bryn is the author of Last Will 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] tells her story as if lifting a cloth thread by thread,
revealing heartbreaking landscapes and riveting dialogue in perfect
timing. This book won't pull at heartstrings but instead yank out
the entire organ and shake it about before lodging it back in an
unfamiliar position. --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. Vibrant.
Heartbreaking. Sympathetic. Her writing is astonishing. --Karen, #1
US most popular reviewer, Goodreads Bryn Greenwood's All the
Ugly and Wonderful Things [is] 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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