Earth Angel

PRAISE FOR EARTH ANGEL"21 Books We're Most Excited About in 2023." - Nylon "[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."--The Northwest Review "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 "Cash has created vibrant, sometimes nihilistic, often cuttingly hilarious vignettes, which you'll be hard pressed not to whizz through in one sitting."--The Face "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 wonderfully vibrant and fresh. Madeline's stories are smart, hilarious, heartbreaking, and sharp. A glimmer of hope in the time of modern America."--Petra Cortright, digital artist, VVEB CAM 2007 currently exhibiting at MOMA "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."--Christian Lorentzen, Bomb Magazine "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."--LARB "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 The Ask, Hark, and No One Left to Come Looking for You "The stories in her book are bizarre in the way that only a writer with her precision can employ."--W Magazine "...accelerated and fractured, closer to memes than Montaigne. She's so relentlessly funny, so manically inventive, that you might not at first notice the deep undercurrent of sadness beneath the scintillant surface..."