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Amber Gwynne, Lecturer in Writing, The University of Queensland

A tech billionaire and troubled girls: Madeline Cash’s ‘unhinged’ debut is Kafka meets Sedaris

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In Madeline Cash’s debut novel – lauded by Lena Dunham and already optioned for a limited series – the Flynns, like all unhappy families, are unhappy in their own way.

Bud and Catherine have just opened their marriage – reluctantly, on Bud’s part. Catherine is a day-drinking stay-at-home mom who longs for the rock star she thought she’d married. Bud is an accounts manager for the town’s main industry: Alabaster Harbor™, a port owned by an infamous billionaire tech magnate (the novel’s mysterious, white-toothed antagonist).

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