{"product_id":"lost-lambs-9780374619237","title":"Lost Lambs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eSplinters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Madeline Cash is a voice like no other.\" --Lena Dunham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I've read entire books that contain less wit and inventiveness than a single one of Cash's sentences.\" --Eric Puchner, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times-\u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eDream State\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"With a big surge of energy, \u003ci\u003e Lost Lambs \u003c\/i\u003esplits the nucleus of the American family.\" --Tony Tulathimutte, author of \u003ci\u003eRejection\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRippling with humor, warmth, and style, \u003ci\u003eLost Lambs\u003c\/i\u003e is a new vision of the charms and pitfalls of family dysfunction. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCasting 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIrreverent and addictive, pinging between the voices of the Flynn family and those of the panorama of characters around them, Madeline Cash's\u003ci\u003e Lost Lambs \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374619237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/13\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2025 pg. 63\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Madeline Cash","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52034461958325,"sku":"9780374619237","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_68404329-14a9-4b2e-baf1-ac729bede1ac.jpg?v=1763594368","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/lost-lambs-9780374619237","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}