Earth Angel, Madeline Cash
Earth Angel, Madeline Cash
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Earth Angel
Stories

Author: Madeline Cash

Narrator: Gail Shalan

Unabridged: TBD

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/27/2026

Synopsis

In this expanded reissue of her electric debut collection, Madeline Cash, the author of the international bestseller Lost Lambs, synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering, life-affirming collage of stories.

Life is absurd; so is Earth Angel.

Tales of rebellious schoolgirls and apocalypse-fearing marketing executives. A biblical plague that rains sapient frogs. A childless millennial throwing a slumber party. A young couple trying experimental drugs to
reignite their relationship.

Blending reverence and ridicule, the stories that make up Earth Angel are bizarre, playful, inextricably linked, hyper-modern yet timeless. What shines through is Madeline 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.

About Madeline Cash

Madeline Cash is the author of the story collection Earth Angel and the novel Lost Lambs. Her work has been published in The Paris Review online, Granta, BOMB, and elsewhere. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages.

About Gail Shalan

Gail Shalan (she/her) is a New York City-based storyteller on screen, stage, behind the mic, and with puppets.A 2024 two-time Audie Award winner (Best Young Adult and Best Middle Grade), as well as a multiple Earphones Award winner, praised by The New York Times, Library Journal, Vulture Magazine, Booklist, and Audiofile, she’s narrated 200+ titles.Gail has performed on stage at The Bristol Old Vic, Cherry Lane Theatre, St. Ann’s Warehouse, and other various theater spaces across the US and UK.Her work as both an actor and a puppeteer was featured in the award-winning short film Coyote Girl (BostonIFF Best Short).Known for her dexterity with character and dialects, her tangibly emotional reads, and her deep respect for the text, Gail is passionate about stories that center generational healing and mental health, that navigate the sticky spaces between childhood and adulthood, and stories that ask who am “I”? Who are “we”? And what swells in the space between us, what dwells in the space within us? For that’s where the greatest discoveries and curiosities lie.

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Quotes

“Earth Angel is vigorous, hilarious, and demented. The nightmare of the now has a radiant and vicious new bard, and her name is Madeline Cash.” —Sam Lipsyte, author of No One Left to Come Looking for You

“Cash’s heroines are all earth angels but none so much as [the] presence in these stories of the author herself, whose style has a devilish (remember Satan was an angel) and celestial power, quite apart from the characters and scenarios Cash has imagined.” —Christian Lorentzen, Bomb

“Earth Angel reiterates this sentiment: life is a hot mess, but we try to be happy. It’s a fleeting happiness, ephemeral because something shitty will happen again—you’ll see your rapist smiling on Instagram or be asked to do marketing copy for a terrorist organization—and you ultimately can’t escape the great unknown, the black hole at the end of this book and everything else.” —Anna Dorn, Los Angeles Review of Books

“Madeline Cash twirls through the detritus of our ravaged modern age in her charming debut, Earth Angel. Armed with an electric humor, Cash spins glittering tales of a physical world in decline, a surveillance culture lit by glaring LEDs that is dispossessed and irreverent, having forgotten how heavy with meaning it is.” —Jen George, author of The Babysitter at Rest

“The stories in Earth Angel are playful, charming, and a little bit devious—this is a striking debut by a writer to watch.” —Chelsea Hodson, author of Tonight I’m Someone Else

“Earth Angel is quotable, persuasive, glib, and profound—the compiled code of a lifetime spent amidst Hello Kitty sleeping bags, far-off forever wars, dying pets, sexual predators, and obsolescing handheld devices. It is a book as pleasurable, strange, and anxiety-provoking as (to use one
of its own images) a Noah’s Ark of Nintendogs. I loved it.” —Mark Doten, author of Trump Sky Alpha

“Earth Angel is a brutal, funny, and dizzying fever dream of a book. Madeline Cash’s stories read like the musings of a brilliant boarding school girl sucking on a DMT vape pen: an entire universe, vivid and writhing, is revealed beneath her placid stare. This is an electric debut.” —Nada Alic, author of Bad Thoughts

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