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A reissue of Earth Angel, the debut collection by Madeline Cash author of Lost Lambs

In this reissue of her debut collection, Madeline Cash, the author of Lost Lambs, skewers our late-stage-Capitalist reality into a strange, but ultimately life-affirming collage of stories.

Life is absurd, so is Earth Angel.

A biblical plague rains sentient frogs, a childless millennial throws a slumber party, a young couple try experimental drugs to reignite their relationship. Tales of rebellious school girls and apocalypse-fearing marketing executives.

Blending reverence and ridicule, the stories that make up Earth Angel are bizarre, playful, inextricably linked, hyper-modern yet timeless. What shines through is Cash’s undeniable affection for the denizens of this strange and surreal world – a place that is at times dark, but not without hope for the future.

Publisher Review

An emerging writer to watch * Washington Post * Cash's stories can be funny, inventive, linguistically exciting, and feel genuinely new. The brutality they trade on conjures depressingly convincing portraits of our ongoing modernity, realer than real * Verso Books * Cash's heroines are all earth angels but none so much as presence in these stories of the author herself, whose style has a devilish (remember Satan was an angel) and celestial powers, quite apart from the characters and scenarios Cash has imagined. * Bomb Magazine * Cash's stories are a reminder of what fiction can do when it's allowed to break the rules, express its moment, turn the despairing or the banal into something better. * Compact * The stories in [Cash's] book are bizarre in the way that only a writer with her precision can employ. * W Magazine * Madeline's debut story collection reads like a captivating lucid dream. * Nylon * Uncanny, poetic, and bleakly funny, Earth Angel reaches for a higher power in a society that has forgotten how to believe. * LARB * [Cash] pushes her characters a step further than expected, hooks them up to an IV filled with irony, and watches as they degrade on their own slippery slopes. * NorthWest Review * To read Madeline Cash is to mainline her apocalyptic vitality, to witness a rare vision realized with an untamed sense of control, to light your cigarette off of the flames from her burning heart. * Justin Taylor, author of Riding with the Ghost * I enjoyed Madeline's stories a lot. They're weird and funny and dead-pan, and they explore interesting, under-examined topics. * Tao Lin, author of Taipei and Leave Society *