"The Flynns are certainly uniquely miserable: Bud and Catherine have decided to open up their marriage and the fallout is extreme because nobody is keeping an eye on their three teenage daughters. Harper, the youngest, is a precocious child genius and provides much of the novel's driving action as her conspiracy theories regarding a nefarious local billionaire turn out to be true."
"Lost Lambs is technically ambitious and linguistically playful, but, most strikingly of all, it is a 21st-century novel that is ultimately optimistic. Cash's characters navigate one another and the novel's satirical late capitalist world, and are ultimately rewarded with what feels like Cash's oddest move of all: a genuinely happy ending that feels true."
The Flynn family unravels as parents Bud and Catherine open their marriage, leaving three neglected teenage daughters to pursue extreme paths. Harper, the youngest, is a precocious genius whose conspiracy theories about a nefarious local billionaire prove true. Louise, the middle child, befriends a terrorist online and constructs bombs in a treehouse. Abigail, the eldest, dates a veteran nicknamed 'War Crimes Wes.' An ensemble cast and shifting points of view create technical ambition and linguistic play within a satirical late-capitalist setting that ultimately resolves in an unexpectedly genuine, optimistic ending.
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