Follows a suburban family of five unspooling at the seams, navigating a disastrous open marriage, teenage rebellion, and an unexpected human trafficking/body-hacking crime conspiracy.
Delightfully cracked ... Cash attends to the family crises with a winning mixture of black comedy and innocent sweetness ... It’s an engaging, slightly cartoonish story that shows off Ms. Cash’s talent for producing rapid-fire dialogue and amiably oddball characters. It helps that the author has clearly enjoyed herself.
Riotously assured ... There are moments when its break-a-heel-and-keep-sprinting energy outpaces restraint ... Still, these excesses are inseparable from the novel’s animating spirit ... Cash has announced herself as a writer with a distinctive voice, an eye for the grotesque within the mundane, and a deep skepticism of the stories that behemoth institutions tell to justify themselves.
Madcap ... Part quirky crime caper, part manic cultural satire and part affectionate dramedy of family both biological and found ... The grace that saves Lost Lambs from overly committing to the bit is Cash’s evident fondness for its beleaguered eccentrics. The extermination sequence, for instance, is among the most moving this zany novel has to offer.
