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A semi-estranged midlife couple and their three precocious daughters form the center of Madeline Cash’s satirical novel, “Lost Lambs.” By John Maher John Maher is an editor at the Book Review. When ...

The family at the center of Madeline Cash’s first novel, Lost Lambs, is falling apart. Bud and Catherine Flynn have begun a “nonconsensual nonmonogamous spell.” They are too busy scorching each ...

Two recent books, different in temperament and circumstance, invite reflection on what draws our attention, and how that attention is best applied. I try to stay insulated from publishing-industry ...

One thing to be said for the splintered families of three new novels is that being dysfunctional is better than being nonfunctional—at least an effort is being made. In Madeline Cash’s delightfully ...

In the beginning were the gnats. “Lost Lambs,” Madeline Cash’s riotously assured debut novel, opens inside Our Lady of Suffering as the pests swarm through services, multiplying faster than Father ...

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Britney Spears and Kevin Federline have differing viewpoints about his memoir. After Spears, 43, claimed her ex-husband’s upcoming book, You Thought You Knew, is a cash grab, Federline, 47, begged to ...

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