Wednesday, January 14, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Skylight Books, Los Angeles
 CLICK HERE TO RSVP _**RSVP is recommended but not required. Entry and seating are first-come, first-served. RSVPs do not guarantee entry to a full event.**_ **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 glue. **Madeline Cash** is a cofounder of _Forever Magazine_ and the author of the story collection _Earth Angel_. Her fiction has appeared in _Granta_, _The Baffler_, _The Sewanee Review_, _The Drift_, and elsewhere. She currently lives in London. **Allie Rowbottom** is the author of the debut novel _Aesthetica_ and the memoir _Jell-O Girls._ Her third book and second novel, _Lovers XXX,_ a literary epic set in the golden age of porn_,_ is forthcoming in June of 2026. Allie's writing can be found in The New York Times, Elle and Vanity Fair. She holds a PhD in literature and creative writing and lives in Los Angeles.