"Surreal, absurd, and cerebral, full of sly humor and winks, [The Manual of Detection] is meticulously written and plotted. Fans of George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, and Jasper Fforde, take notice."
The Boston Globe

“Meeks is a feat of desolating literary spellcraft, irresistible for its bleak hilarity and the sere brilliance of Julia Holmes’s prose."
Wells Tower, author of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

Jedediah Berry’s short fiction has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Best New American Voices, and Best American Fantasy. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he works as an assistant editor of Small Beer Press.

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.