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In nine interconnected stories, David V. Matthews depicts the ordinary and secretly-subversive lives of high-school students, university professors, aspiring creative types, and dissatisfied office workers in Western Pennsylvania from the 1970s to today. With a meticulous eye for detail, he shows how America’s sociopolitical ideologies have shaped—and misshaped—characters who crave nothing more than the brief, transcendent moments that art, music, religion, sex, cheesy pop-culture, or patriotic hydrants can bring. Satirical and serious, hilarious and heartbreaking, Meltdown in the Cereal Aisle heralds the arrival of a quirky new talent.

"David Matthews' first collection of short stories, Meltdown in the Cereal Aisle, is by turn, tender and tough, full of both satire and earned sentiment, all rendered vividly in a voice that is fresh and original and bristles with ribald comedy and recurrent pain. It is heart-breaking and humorous and hard to put down." —Chuck Kinder, author of Honeymooners A Cautionary Tale

"Matthews plays with chronology and skillfully employs pop-culture signifiers like bad rock bands and forgotten sitcoms to explore his characters' secret hearts....At its best, the book blends the thematic concerns of literary fiction with the snappy pace of genre work....Meltdown documents the societal milieu of his times with a sensibility all his own."--Bill O'Driscoll, Pittsburgh City Paper

"[Matthews'] prose is brittle and jagged, much like the worldview on display. The book is a dark comedy, recalling the bared fangs of Jonathan Swift. He wields his pop-culture acumen similarly to Don DeLillo, more as a petard on which to hoist an entire misguided, shallow culture." —Kristofer Collins, Pittsburgh Magazine

"Matthews' writing contains a hidden double meaning, a secret and sexual history. His ensemble of characters profane the taboo American suburbs and its pervasive pop culture. Everyone is held accountable, as nothing slips by his sly and hilarious eye unnoticed or unscathed." —David Cherry, creative director of Incredibly Thin

"In Meltdown in the Cereal Aisle, David Matthews uses the minutiae of pop culture to explore human connections. it is the small moments of our lives that connect us over time and distance, and our memories of these moments are fragmented and subjective. There's more going on in these stories than is overtly apparent...just like David himself." —Wayne Wise, author of King of Summer

DAVID V. MATTHEWS is a writer and artist living near Pittsburgh, PA. He is also the subject of Aspie Seeks Love, a 2015 documentary that chronicles his life after receiving an Asperger's diagnosis. Meltdown in the Cereal Aisle is his first book.