Launch Party for MEEKS with Julia Holmes

Join us for a launch party complete with "Independence Day" cake and drinks. And a reading and booksigning with author Julia Holmes! Facebook RSVP encouraged.

 MEEKS evokes the strange charm of a Haruki Murakami novel in a dystopic setting reminiscent of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Two men—one an ex-soldier who has only a few months to find a wife, the other a vagrant who imagines he's a member of the police force—are at the center this darkly hilarious debut. Publishers Weekly said of the book: “A highly imaginative debut finds a stark Darwinian logic in a rigidly hierarchical society. . . . Holmes has fashioned a terrifying and utterly convincing world in which the perfect human being is one stripped of all illusions.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Julia Holmes was born in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and grew up in the Middle East, Texas, and New York, where she is currently an assistant editor at Rolling Stone. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program in fiction. Meeks is her first novel.

ABOUT SMALL BEER PRESS Since its founding in 2000, Small Beer Press has published Kelly Link’s collections Stranger Things Happen (Salon Best Books of the Year) and Magic for Beginners (Time Magazine Best Books of the Year); Ursula K. Le Guin’s translation of Angélica Gorodischer’s novel Kalpa Imperial; Carol Emshwiller’s The Mount (Philip K. Dick Award winner); Sean Stewart’s Perfect Circle; Story Prize Finalist Mothers & Other Monsters by Maureen F. McHugh, John Crowley’s Endless Things, Vincent McCaffrey’s Hound, and Benjamin Parzybok’s Couch, among others. Small Beer also publishes a small lit-zine, LCRW.

Meeks (Paperback)

By Julia Holmes

$16.00

ISBN-13: 9781931520652
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Small Beer Press, 07/01/2010

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