Shayne won\'t get out of the car.
This is a book for everyone who misses or wishes for summer vacation..
Written with humour, compassion, and authenticity, East Grand Lake welcomes readers into the complex inner world of a large and loving family.
Over one sun-soaked day, the Murphy family wrestles with grief, aging, betrayal, mental illness, and the many small fictions that occur when people share their lives.
A boy is afraid of the end of the dock.
The girl cousins make a bid for supremacy.
A pair of brothers hunt frogs.
Following the Murphy Clan from one evening to the next, Tim Ryan captures the many tiny, important dramas that occur simultaneously, sometimes invisibly, when everyone gets together.
A novel in fourteen stories, East Grand Lake is a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted tale of life at the Lake with a big family.
And Shayne won\'t get out of the car.
Three generations are out on the property, swimming, wandering through the forest, fixing up the clubhouse, getting ready to sing around the fire, and having a lovely time.
It\'s the summer of 1972 and the whole family has come up to Grandpa Murphy\'s cottage for their annual trip.
Shayne won\'t get out of the car
