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Ryan Effgen

Biography

Ryan Effgen

Ryan Effgen's fiction has appeared in Best New American Voices, Fiction Magazine, Painted Bride Quarterly and elsewhere. He has earned creative writing fellowships from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and George Mason University. He works as an instructional designer and lives in Virginia with his wife and children.

Ryan Effgen

Books by Ryan Effgen

Make Nice
by Ryan Effgen - Family, Family Life, Fiction, Humor, Literary, Literary Fiction

When the Pickford siblings arrive at The Grand Hotel, they have every intention of spending the long weekend making nice. Pete is keen to wade around the lake in search of a rare and exciting Carthusian snail. Viv is determined to put on a brave face for her daughter. And Corey has lucked into five pounds of cocaine he plans to sell to the first dumb rich guy he can find. But when Pete falls for the alluring mother of a local kid, when Viv’s daughter gets up to teenage trouble and when Corey finds the wealthy guests less interested in party drugs than golf clubs, the long weekend of family bonding veers into disaster. Why did their father bring them to this cushy island resort in the first place? And why does Corey seem to be the only one who knows the truth?