Lost Lambs

A Novel

By: Madeline Cash

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

"Christine Lakin's reading is terrific. Her narration is wonderfully deadpan...and her characterization is pure ear candy. Lakin grants each character complexity and humanity..." — BookPage (Starred Review)

"[Narrator Christine] Lakin excels in her performance of the characters’ dialogue, seamlessly switching between voices and making each character sound unique. Lakin’s skillful narration perfectly captures the essence of this chaotic family novel.” — Kirkus

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.

“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

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Dysfunctional family fun

Love the quirky, Flynn family, Harper is by far my favorite. Love everything wraps up, everyone comes together and are happy for each other, one big dysfunctional family

This book made me smile

Pure joy
I needed this book
Perhaps not literary genius, but lots of fun
A breath of fresh air

Thought provoking

Unique and excellent character building and plot. Thought provoking on topics of religion, family dynamics, and relationships. Surprisingly the novel ends quite warmly for a book who maintains a melancholy tone the majority of the time. I felt it was very relatable about life's ups and downs while also having an interesting twist.

Weird but very funny.

The characters were not very likable. I guess that made them funnier. She knows how to write humor!

Story covers all the emotions.

The characters are interesting and the story covers all emotions. The reader is excellent. I enjoyed every aspect of this title.