Torrance Public Library Presents:

In this superb collection of short stories, Mathieu Cailler weaves tales which bring to life the deeply-human experience with loss and its range of outcomes. From loneliness to recovered relationships, from despair to redemption, from heartbreak to humor, these fifteen short stories illuminate the sadness, bewilderment, conflict, and ultimate hope which can come from each human being's inevitable encounters with loss.   

Mathieu Cailler is a writer of poetry and prose. His work has been widely featured in national and international publications, including Epiphany, the Los Angeles Times, and The Saturday Evening Post. A graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts, he has been a finalist for the Glimmer Train New Writers Award, the New Rivers Press American Fiction Prize, and the Carve Magazine Raymond Carver Short Story Award. He is the recipient of a Short Story America Prize for Short Fiction and a Shakespeare Award for Poetry.  He is the author of Clotheslines, Shhh, and Loss Angeles, a finalist in short-story fiction for the 2016 International Book Award.   
Praise for  Loss Angeles...
 
"Clearly author Mathieu Cailler is a master of the short story format and Loss Angeles is a superbly crafted volume of truly memorable stories." (Midwest Book Review)
 
"There is a Runyonesque quality to Loss Angeles...If you haven't read a short story since high school, start here. Cailler's characters are relatable, his stories engaging, and you'll continuously find yourself excited to see what happens in the next story...read this one. You won't regret it." (Pacific Book Review, Kimberlee Hicks)
 
"Whatever the subject, however common the predicaments are, Cailler helps us see and hear flesh-and-blood people with a calm, clear-eyed sureness so that we accept the usually tender; sometimes surprising, always satisfying endings as natural, even beautiful." (Easy Reader; Ron Arias)
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