ALL THE UGLY AND WONDERFUL THINGS

by Bryn Greenwood
 
This book is disturbing, I am not going to sugar-coat it.  That said, I highly recommend it.
 
Told from an ever-changing perspective, All The Ugly And Wonderful Things drops you into life in the rural southwest, and introduces you to a world where morals, rules and even laws depend on who is speaking and to whom.
 
At the center of the drama is Wavy (short for Wavonna), an eight-year-old girl who neither speaks nor eats and refuses to be touched.  As her story unfolds, we begin to learn why she is this way, and when she makes an unlikely friend, to hope she may find a way out of her prison.
 
Each chapter feels like a glimpse into one angle of this story, which covers more than ten years.  And somehow by the end, those glimpses add up to a rich and compelling world from which you can’t look away. (Lily)