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.
Cash paints the alternate world of Lost Lambs in vivid, breezy prose alight with casual wit ... The book doesn’t always seem to know quite how seriously to take itself ... With her energetic prose and restless imagination, Cash does one better than survey the world; she reinvents it.
