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January 2026
Lost Lambs
Rippling with humor, warmth, and style, Lost Lambs is a new vision of the charms and pitfalls of family dysfunction.
The Flynn family is coming undone. Catherine and Bud's open marriage has reached its breaking point as their daughters spiral in their own chaotic orbits: Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man in his twenties nicknamed War Crime Wes; Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist; the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone--or something--is monitoring the town's citizens.Casting a shadow across their lives, and their small coastal town, is Paul Alabaster, a billionaire shipping magnate. Rumors of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with a mysterious shipping container sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy--one that may just bring them closer together.
Irreverent and addictive, pinging between the voices of the Flynn family and those of the panorama of characters around them, Madeline Cash's Lost Lambs is a debut novel of quick-witted observation and surprising tenderness. With it, Cash has crafted a family saga for the twenty-first century, all held together with crazy gluemore
Previous selections from Belletrist
Belletrist has selected a book each month since 2017. See the full archive
Lightbreakers
Aja Gabel
Simultaneous
Eric Heisserer
Will There Ever Be Another You
Patricia Lockwood
Finding Grace
Loretta Rothschild
How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir
Molly Jong-Fast
Notes on Infinity
Austin Taylor
Lush
Rochelle Dowden-Lord
Twist
Colum McCann
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
Vauhini Vara
The Strange Case of Jane O.
Karen Thompson Walker
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