American debut novelist Madeline Cash brings a satire of family and morality to Festival America
Her first novel, published in French as "Les Brebis égarées," mixes family comedy with paranoid thriller and arrives as she visits the festival in Vincennes.
Madeline Cash, a young American writer, will be a guest of Festival America, held in Vincennes (Val-de-Marne) from September 24 to 27, according to Le Monde des livres, which is a partner of the festival. She is presenting her first novel, published in French under the title "Les Brebis égarées."
According to Le Monde, the book offers what the paper calls an exhilarating variation on a longstanding specialty of American fiction: the dysfunctional family. The novel is described as both a family comedy and a paranoid thriller, with the question of good and evil running through it.
France Culture, in a segment broadcast on its literature program, describes the novel as satirical and loufoque, tracing the moral decadence and spiritual wandering of an American family. The broadcaster notes that the book has already found significant success in the United States.
Festival America, a biennial gathering devoted to writing from the Americas, takes place in Vincennes over four days. Cash's appearance there will give French readers a chance to hear directly from a first-time novelist whose book is arriving in translation on the strength of its American reception.
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