The novel takes place in two interwoven time periods: the first deals with the Binewski children's constant struggle against each other through life. The results are Arturo ('Arty,' also known as 'Aqua Boy'), a boy with flippers for hands and feet Electra ('Elly') and Iphigenia ('Iphy'), Siamese twins Olympia ('Oly'), a hunchbacked albino dwarf and Fortunato ('Chick'), the normal-looking baby of the family who has telekinetic powers. When the business begins to fail, the couple devise an idea to breed their own freak show, using various drugs and radioactive material to alter the genes of their children. The novel is the story of a traveling carnival run by Aloysius 'Al' Binewski and his wife 'Crystal' Lil, and their children, seen through the eyes of their daughter Olympia ('Oly') who writes the family history for her daughter Miranda. It was a finalist for the National Book Award. Dunn published parts of the novel in Mississippi Mud Book of Days (1983) and Looking Glass Bookstore Review (1988). Knopf (a division of Random House) in 1989. Less a typical nuclear family than a nuked one, the Binewskis despise ‘norms’-to the extent of killing or abandoning those of their infants born without a speciality.Geek Love is a novel by American writer Katherine Dunn, published completely by Alfred A. “The target of Dunn’s grotesquerie is our hypocritical culture, which claims to celebrate individualism but vigorously promotes conformity and conventional beauty. Geek Love asks the question ‘what greater gift could you offer your children than an inherent ability to earn a living just by being themselves?’ Thus, Al Binewski and his wife, Crystal Lil, ‘experimenting with illicit prescription drugs, insecticides, and eventually radarscopes,’ give birth to a series of crowd-pleasingly deformed children.

“HUR-REE! HUR-REE! Step right up, lady and gentlemen readers! Welcome to Aloysius Binewski’s Fabulous traveling carnival and freak show! See Arturo Binewski, the amazing legless, armless Aqua Boy! See Electra and Iphigenia, the beautiful piano-playing Siamese twins! Meet Olympia Binewski, the bald albino hunchbacked dwarf! Read Katherine Dunn’s provocative, inventive, funny, gristly and hugely compelling third novel! HUR-REE! HUR-REE!…

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