Name: Lost Lambs
Rating: 3.96875 (16 reviews)

Madeline Cash

Lost Lambs

Emma Hak-Kovacs

"l'm many things: a physician, a philanthropist. I've been called an animal in the bedroom." She looked into his pointy face. If any woman had called this man an animal, surely they meant a rodent.

“This is a once-in-a-Life time offer. To see how the sausage gets made.”

Abigail had seen documentaries about the making of sausage and other meat products and it was, quite frankly, disgusting. 

“I can't feel my hands in a bad way," said Tibet. Her hands dangled limp at the ends of her wrists. "What if never feel them again? What if we never have another thumb war?”

“It’s alright,” said Abigail, “We’ve never had a thumb war.”

“We don't have money for four-hundred-dollar dresses. We have to put you and your sisters through college.”

“Who’s going to college? Abigail will marry rich, Harper will go to prison, and after high school I have to surrender my life unto God."

“So," said Bud. "My mother was crazy religious-“

“Let's not use 'crazy' as a pejorative, please," Miss Winkle interjected. 

“Right, okay, um, my mother was a batshit-insane devout lunatic who'd pray for my mortal soul if I ate store-bought peanut butter," said Bud.

Cash has such a way with words - absolutely hilarious 

Lili

A nice read, but felt a bit rushed. Would have liked more time with the characters and smoother transitions. 

Cenedra

“I can’t remember the last time a novel made me laugh so hard or feel so much tenderness for its characters.” —Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters “Madeline Cash is a voice like no other.” —Lena Dunham “I’ve read entire books that contain less wit and inventiveness than a single one of Cash’s sentences.” —Eric Puchner, New York Times-bestselling author of Dream State “With a big surge of energy, Lost Lambs splits the nucleus of the American family.” —Tony Tulathimutte, author of Rejection Rippling with humor, warmth, and style, Lost Lambs is a new vision of the charms and pitfalls of family dysfunction. The Flynn family is coming undone. Catherine and Bud's open marriage has reached its breaking point as their daughters spiral in their own chaotic orbits: Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man in his twenties nicknamed War Crime Wes; Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist; the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone—or something—is monitoring the town’s citizens. Casting a shadow across their lives, and their small coastal town, is Paul Alabaster, a billionaire shipping magnate. Rumors of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with a mysterious shipping container sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy—one that may just bring them closer together. Irreverent and addictive, pinging between the voices of the Flynn family and those of the panorama of characters around them, Madeline Cash’s Lost Lambs is a debut novel of quick-witted observation and surprising tenderness. With it, Cash has crafted a family saga for the twenty-first century, all held together with crazy glue.

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Grace M

Elizabeth 

Ana Collados

juneau

Macy HB

Rippling with humor, warmth, and style, Lost Lambs is a new vision of the charms and pitfalls of family dysfunction. The Flynn family is coming undone. Catherine and Bud's open marriage has reached its breaking point as their daughters spiral in their own chaotic orbits: Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man in his twenties nicknamed War Crime Wes; Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist; the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone—or something—is monitoring the town’s citizens. Casting a shadow across their lives, and their small coastal town, is Paul Alabaster, a billionaire shipping magnate. Rumors of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with a mysterious shipping container sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy—one that may just bring them closer together. Irreverent and addictive, pinging between the voices of the Flynn family and those of the panorama of characters around them, Madeline Cash’s Lost Lambs is a debut novel of quick-witted observation and surprising tenderness. With Lost Lambs, Cash has crafted a family saga for the twenty-first century, all held together with crazy glue.

Iris

Tiffany 🍒

Sarah Erle

Isobel Holmes

Mia Hamilton

Welcome to Alabaster Harbour© The three Flynn daughters - Abigail, Louise and Harper - are each rebelling towards adulthood, whilst their two Flynn parents - Bud and Catherine - just can't stop behaving like kids. It's been disastrous since Bud and Catherine opened up their marriage, and none of the Flynns can remember the last time a meal was cooked, a load of laundry was done, or a social code was abided by. Not that Catherine and Bud aren't trying - and trying new things. Bud still drives to his job at the Harbour© in the family minivan, which, yes, is also now his home, and Catherine still refuses to conform to domestic pressures - she's an artist, a woman, and no one understands her! And the girls? Surely they're fine, whatever it is they're up to. As the Flynns are each occupied by their own upheavals, Lost Lambs expands past them into a hilarious portrait of suburban dysfunction, all the way up to a nefarious local billionaire whose machinations may just - finally - bring the family closer together. This is an original, funny and compassionate portrait of the perverse pleasures and perils of our most intimate reality: our family.

Lost Lambs

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