madeline cash

We love watching other people’s chaos. The popularity of reality TV shows just how much we recognize ourselves in the clichés of the dysfunctional family. Lost Lambs, the debut novel by Madeline Cash, explores the absurdities of modern family life. Issues such as open marriages, the decline of organized religion, online abuse, growing up, and the misconduct of multimillionaires are effortlessly woven together. Why do we find it so compelling to watch others struggle? And how on earth does a modern family stay afloat in the 21st century?

Madeline Cash is the founder of Forever Magazine and the author of the short story collection Earth Angel. Her fiction has appeared in publications including Granta, The Baffler, The Sewanee Review, The Drift, and Bomb. Lost Lambs is her debut novel and has been enthusiastically received throughout the English-speaking world: Lena Dunham called her “a voice like no other,” while Dazed Magazine described it as “the most hyped novel of 2026.”