East Grand Lake
Ashley Raskovsky
, Susan Toy
, Noelle Walsh
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Janice B Knickle
, Amanda Schempp
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Jude Castillo
, Linda Leitch
, Penny Gilman
, Deana Bueley
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Mathew Webb
, Sandra Furlotte
, Joshua Lewis
, Andrea Pole
, Marilyn Stanley
, Shannon Holmes
, Barry Kazimer
, Ed Gilman
, Paula Adam
, LJ Law
, Sarah Schwartz
, Joe Mitchell
, Claire Gear
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Tyler Webb
, Andy Holmes
, Thelma Ball
, Natasa Ilic
, Julie Kaniak
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Lauren Seal
, Jennifer Beyak
, joy mills
, Shayla Bradley
, Dani Kat
, Mary Therrien
, Courtney White
, Agnes Marshall
, Trish Bowering
, Andrea Gillespie
, Deb Philippon
, Jennifer Morse
, Kathleen Mary Kilmer
, Jilanna Eagles
, Brenda Vaccarello
, Gabrielle Veilleux
, Hoda Montazeri
, Carol Parchewsky
, Patricia Johnson
, Vicki Bedford
, Ellen Clarke
, Emma Way
, Laurie Burns
, Alison Manley
, Kirsten Norlock
, Marjorie Roy
, Tanya Boudreau
, Cindy Bodini
, Shelley Gibbs
, Lisa Ostrowski
, Judy Richardson
, Sharon Bird
, Crystal Inwood
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Remi Gunn
, Kathryn Galan
, zelda dwyer
, Shawna Moodie
, P. Thompson
, Ken Gilmour
, sarah campbell
, Heather Rose
, Paula Ritchie
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Heather Belliveau
, Christine Lion
, Jane Graham
, Rachel Lutz
, Mary Danieli
, Huguette Lemieux
, Donna Gamache
, Diana Richardson
, Susan Fitzgerald
, Derek Davidson
, Lynn Hallson
, Debbie Rodgers
, Darlene Foster
, Benita Hartwell
, Maria Mclean
, Denise Duvall
, Rosa Cross
, Janet Meisner
, Rodney Cross
, Donald Forsythe
, Catherine Westerberg
, Kate Kostandoff
, Kim Fenton
, Margaret McKay
, Maureen Brownlee
, Sandra Dufoe
, jane luce
, Kim Cappellina
, Jessica Gilbert
, Gwynn Scheltema
, diana kirkwood
, Dielle MacArthur
, Lynn Bechtel
, Alice Meems
, Janice Cournoyer
, Lisa Mallia
, Stacy Stafford
, Karen Kendrick
, Melissa Kohlman
, C. Ray
, Karen Nordrum
, Debra Fisher
, Debbie Youngman
, Shannon Lee
, Melissa Poremba
, Reilly Robson
, Adrienne Stevenson
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Elaine Baptie
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Shayne won’t get out of the car. It’s the summer of 1972 and the whole family has come up to Grandpa Murphy’s cottage for their annual trip. 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. And Shayne won’t get out of the car.
A novel in fourteen stories, East Grand Lake is a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted tale of life at the lake with a big family. 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 pair of brothers hunt frogs. The girl cousins make a bid for supremacy. A boy is afraid of the end of the dock. 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.
Written with humour, compassion, and authenticity, East Grand Lake welcomes readers into the complex inner world of a large and loving family. This is a book for everyone who misses or wishes for summer vacation.
