Failure to Thrive

Meghan Lambs debut novel is a marvel. Its an indelible portrait of a nearly forgotten place full of stunted lives and desperate hopes decaying homes and fading memories ghostly presences brought vividly to life. Its a timely exploration of the failures that seep into our lives like slow leaks and the systems that intensify them. Its a haunted landscape made luminous by Lambs exquisite prose. -Jeff Jackson author of Destroy All MonstersFailure to Thrive captures slow collapse like nothing else Ive read. It is packed with heartbreakingly acute observation and yet it is uncrowded and spacious with a gauzy hallucinatory quality. Both expansive and economical it does more with the form of the novel than most books will ever attempt. Its a gem glittering in the dark.-Lindsay Lerman author of Im From NowhereMeghan Lamb is such an exquisite comprehensively intelligent dreamy writer. Failure to Thrive exudes utmost pleasure and a defying ache from every dot of its ink like the sun. -Dennis Cooper author of The Marbled Swarm