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by Julia Holmes

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No woman will have Ben without a proper bachelor's suit . . . and the tailor refuses to make him one. Back from war with a nameless enemy, Ben finds that his mother is dead and his family home has been reassigned by the state. As if that isn't enough, he must now find a wife, or he'll be made a civil servant and given a permanent spot in one of the city's oppressive factories.

Meanwhile, Meeks, a foreigner who lives in the park and imagines he's a member of the police, is hunted by the overzealous Brothers of Mercy. Meeks' survival depends on his peculiar friendship with a police captain--but will that be enough to prevent his execution at the annual Independence Day celebration?

A dark satire rendered with the slapstick humor of a Buster Keaton film, Julia Holmes' debut marries the existentialism of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground to the strange charm of a Haruki Murakami novel. Meeks portrays a world at once hilarious and disquieting, in which frustrated revolutionaries and hopeful youths suffer alongside the lost and the condemned, just for a chance at the permanent bliss of marriage and a slice of sugar-frosted Independence Day cake.

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.

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  • Title Meeks
  • Author Julia Holmes
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Small Beer Press, Easthampton:
  • Publication date 2010-07
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian, Recycled Paper
  • ISBN 9781931520652 / 1931520658
  • Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.44 x 6.12 x 0.52 in (21.44 x 15.54 x 1.32 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Political fiction, Veterans
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010010092
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • New York Times Book Review, 08/29/2010, Page 26
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/03/2010, Page 32

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 Trinity University and of Columbia University's MFA program in fiction. Meeks is her first novel.
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