LOST LAMBS by Madeline Cash >> FInd out why the buzz around this debut novel is warranted!
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With all its inventive, kooky, paramilitary (!) elements, Lost Lambs is delightful and wholly original. Except when it seems like a DIRECT descendent of Thomas Pynchon.
Listen in to fully appreciate the narrative stance, the postmodern elements (don't worry, I'll provide a definition), the structure, and the ways this frothy novel is crucially subversive.
And the gnats! Dive in to hear my theory for wtf is up with all the GNATs!
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