Lost Lambs

<p><b>National bestseller. A <i>New York Times Book Review </i>Editors' Choice.</b><br><br><b>"Extremely smart, impossibly funny, and just plain fun to read-this book hums with a brilliant, lunatic energy all its own. I finished it in a day." -Caro Claire Burke, #1 <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>Yesteryear</i> </b><br><b><br>"If the Royal Tenenbaums were middle-class and likable, they'd be this madcap family." </b><b>-<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br><b>"Madeline Cash is a voice like no other." -Lena Dunham, #1 <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>Famesick</i></b><br><b><br>Rippling with humor, warmth, and style, <i>Lost Lambs</i> is a new vision of the charms and pitfalls of family dysfunction. <br><br></b>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.<br><br>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 exposes a criminal conspiracy that unwittingly endangers her family-a crisis that just may bring them closer together.<br><br>Irreverent and addictive, pinging between the voices of the Flynns and the characters around them, Madeline Cash's <i>Lost Lambs</i> is a debut novel of quick-witted observation and surprising tenderness. In it, Cash has crafted a family saga for the twenty-first century, all held together with crazy glue.</p>