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From Midwest Book Review<\/em>: Clearly author Mathieu Cailler is a master of the short story format and Loss Angeles<\/strong><\/em> is a superbly crafted volume of truly memorable stories.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Pacific Book Review<\/em>: There is a Runyonesque quality to Loss Angeles<\/strong><\/em>. Each story exists individually within its own universe, yet there\u2019s an overall impression that any of them could walk down the street and run into someone else. It\u2019s all Los Angeles, after all, and it\u2019s somehow more compelling to think that these things are happening all at once. If you haven\u2019t read a short story since high school, start here. Cailler\u2019s characters are relatable, his stories engaging, and you\u2019ll continuously find yourself excited to see what happens in the next story. If you have read a short story since high school, read this one. You won\u2019t regret it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. \u2014Easy Reader<\/i>, Ron Arias<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cailler is an author who writes rich stories. <\/i>\u2014Serious Reading<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Loss Angeles<\/i><\/strong> by Mathieu Cailler is an interesting collection of short stories… There are fifteen stories, which look at the private lives of a diverse cast of characters, with diverse challenges, violence, tragedy, grief, loss, conflict, compassion, empathy and love. REALITY, people; flaws and all! The author shows us all that life is complex, can be difficult, has hardships, challenges, and that we all need compassion and empathy. Very compelling. A treasure to be sure! \u2014Book Addiction<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Loss Angeles<\/strong><\/em> doesn\u2019t focus on the bright lights of Tinseltown, but rather on the quiet day-to-day pain of marginalized people paralyzed by loss, poor choices, obsessions, and love. These subtle, beautifully wrought, and richly realized stories showcase Cailler as an intrepid fiction writer who is always compassionate to his characters and their moral quandaries.
\n\u2014Laurie Alberts, author of The Price of Land in Shelby<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mathieu Cailler’s Loss Angeles<\/strong><\/em> is as vast and capacious in its human reckonings as the city it is named after, or re-named so movingly here in this extraordinary collection: in story after story Cailler demonstrates a remarkable range of characters who have lost almost everything only to find themselves somehow sustained by the most delicate, poignant, and tenuous of human threads. A remarkable\u2014and remarkably moving\u2014debut.
\n\u2014Robert Vivian, author of The Tall Grass Trilogy<\/em> and The Least Cricket of Evening<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Loss Angeles<\/strong><\/em> Mathieu Cailler looks upon humanity\u2019s foibles with a tender mercy and conveys what he sees in sentences that sing with simplicity and clarity. Every story in the collection reveals a devastating beauty that, page after page, held me mesmerized. Cailler is indeed a writer to be admired and read for years to come.
\n\u2014Sophfronia Scott, author of All I Need to Get By<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mathieu Cailler\u2019s clear-voiced humanity resounds throughout the 15 stories of this accomplished debut collection. His balanced powers of complex observation and accessibility are well suited to short fiction as he masterfully boils his stories down to small but revealing moments, exploring universal themes of loss, love, self-awareness, and so much more. The title emotion merely suggests but one of many evoked with the skill of a true world observer. Loss Angeles<\/strong><\/em> has everything to gain and Cailler is an author to watch.
\n\u2014Kali VanBaale, author of The Space Between

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A book\u2019s title is often where you find its theme, and that can certainly be said for Loss Angeles. Los Angeles attracts the hopeful with the promise of an extraordinary life. Loss Angeles brings us the stories of ordinary life, united through the common thread of loss. I loved that I could pick this book up whenever the mood struck and inhabit the skin of another person and feel not so alone in my trials. Mathieu Cailler is a master at seeing the world through the eyes of another, each protagonist flesh and bone whether that be a teen girl, uncomfortable at a party, or a divorced dad, trying to keep his rank in his son\u2019s life. As I flip through the book, I think, \u201cOh, that\u2019s my favorite. No, that\u2019s my favorite. No, no, that one.\u201d The honest truth is that this is a superb, solid collection.. But if I had to pick, it would be “Graveyard Shift.” Because the world can change in a heartbeat. It can cave in on you. But it can also open up again.. Sometimes we need the reminder.<\/p>\n

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\u2014Maggie Findlay<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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