Failure to Thrive

<p>Meghan Lamb's debut novel is a marvel. It's 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. It's a timely exploration of the failures that seep into our lives like slow leaks and the systems that intensify them. It's a haunted landscape made luminous by Lamb's exquisite prose.<strong style=color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>-</strong><strong>Jeff Jackson author of <em>Destroy All Monsters</em></strong></p><p><em>Failure to Thrive </em>captures slow collapse like nothing else I've 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. It's a gem glittering in the dark.<strong style=color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>-</strong><strong>Lindsay Lerman author of <em>I'm From Nowhere</em></strong></p><p>Meghan Lamb is such an exquisite comprehensively intelligent dreamy writer. <em>Failure to Thrive</em> exudes utmost pleasure and a defying ache from every dot of its ink like the sun.<strong style=color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>-</strong><strong>Dennis Cooper author of <em>The Marbled Swarm</em></strong></p>