Madeline Cash

In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering, sublime, life-affirming collage of stories.

Earth Angel is a book like no other, the paperback that swallowed the smartphone. An Isis recruit, an adolescent beauty queen, and a childless millennial walk into a bar. A Biblical plague rains down head lice, aerial drone strikes, gender non-conforming frogs. An app throws a slumber party for a friendless office worker. Texans in the winter, the Taliban in Springtime, Teslas with ℮☥ bumper stickers, Frozen 5 in Arabic, architectural consistency laws in Laurel Canyon, the longest recorded nosebleed in history.

An unhinged jet stream that is ultramodern and poignantly timeless, capturing the angst of the post-millennial generation.

Earth Angel

Lost Lambs

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.

A Novel

“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.

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.

Brian Evenson

Tony Tulathimutte

Laura Dave

Olivie Blake

Jonathan Escoffery

Tim Blackett

Volume 0 Issue 3

»Was für ein Feuerwerk aus Witz, Intelligenz und Energie! Ich hätte ewig weiterlesen und die Familie Flynn auf ihren herrlich abgründigen Wegen begleiten können.« Elena Fischer Eigentlich könnte die Familie Flynn eine Vorbild-Vorstadt-Familie sein: Mutter, Vater und drei Töchter, sonntags geht man in die Kirche. Eigentlich. Denn die Flynns haben es schwer. Jeder für sich und alle miteinander. Seit Mutter Catherine in einer Sinnkrise beschlossen hat, die Ehe zu öffnen, lebt Vater Bud im Auto in der Garage und findet in der Selbsthilfegruppe Zuflucht, die am wenigsten nach Sekte klingt: die Verlorenen Schäfchen. Auch die Töchter suchen ihre Wege aus der familiären Lebenskrise: Die jüngste, Harper, ist sich sicher, dass sie einer großen Verschwörung auf der Spur ist. Louise befindet sich in einem ungünstigen Beziehungsstrudel mit ihrem fundamentalistischen Online-Lover, während die dritte im Bunde, Abigail, einen schweigsamen jungen Mann namens Kriegsverbrecher-Wes datet. Und all diese Fäden laufen ausgerechnet bei einem zwielichtigen Milliardär zusammen. Mit hinreißender Lakonie erzählt Madeline Cash von einer Familie kurz vor dem Kollaps in den Turbulenzen unserer durchmodernisierten Welt. »Verlorene Schäfchen« ist der Familienroman der Stunde.

Roman - »Die Dialoge funkeln vor Sprachwitz und Schlagfertigkeit. Ein literarisches Wunder!« Thea Dorn, Das Literarische Quartett

Verlorene Schäfchen

‘A voice like no other’ Lena Dunham The instant Sunday Times bestseller ‘I LOVED IT . . . Masterfully and totally realised’ PANDORA SYKES ‘The most wildly original book of the year’ HARPER’S BAZAAR ‘Required reading in the same way that Normal People was’ JACK EDWARDS ‘The debut novel for 2026 that has undoubtedly been the most shouted about.’ THE SUNDAY TIMES STYLE ‘The year’s brightest literary star’ INDEPENDENT ‘Get ready to laugh out loud’ ELLE ‘A darkly funny family saga’ BUSTLE == Think your family is dysfunctional? Meet the Flynns. For the three Flynn daughters, it’s been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed ‘War Crimes Wes’. Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist. And the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to a wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone – or something – is monitoring the town’s citizens. Casting a shadow across their lives is Paul Alabaster, a nefarious local billionaire. Rumours of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with Alabaster’s machinations sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy – one that may just, finally, bring them closer together. ‘As bold and assured a debut as Zadie Smith’s White Teeth or Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides’ MEGAN NOLAN ‘An instant classic and a comic novel about family you could recommend to just about anyone’ SHORTLIST ‘Manages to capture something we can all universally relate to: how normal it is to have a dysfunctional family’ SUNDAY TIMES Readers love LOST LAMBS ‘What a ROMP!’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘The hype is real!’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘Hilarious, weird, original and addictive!’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘If Wes Anderson wrote Little Women.’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘I’m shouting it from every rooftop: THIS IS THE BOOK OF THE YEAR!’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘Perhaps the funniest book I’ve ever read.’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

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