Geek love tells the story of the Al and Lillian Binewski and their children who Al and Lillian deliberately tried to give them birth defects to make them bigger attractions to the carnival.
Told in two different time periods one that follows the Binewski family travelling around the country as performers in the carnival and the infighting between the children especially around the spotlight and the second is set much further in the future as it follows Oly Binewski one of the children and a humpback who spies on her daughter who doesn’t know Oly is her mother.
Containing a lot of black humor Geek Love satirizes spectacles, religion, celebrity and vanity.
This novel should be considered an underground classic.
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