Addled Addict: 'Crystal' Lil, once she becomes an old woman and years of abusing pills catch up with her.Accomplice by Inaction: Elly often accuses Oly of being this to Arty and his many travesties, but the latter doesn't see it that way.Then there's the whole issue of the parents deliberately taking drugs in order to create freakish, deformed children whom they could exploit. They make her feel inadequate for not being 'special' enough, because her particular deformities aren't so marketable as those of her siblings. Abusive Parents: Oly loves her parents, but their treatment of her is up for debate.Tim Burton has expressed a desire to adapt it for the screen, but whether or not that will ever happen is still up in the air. Geek Love, written by Katherine Dunn, is a somewhat obscure book probably due to its polarizing effect with critics, who have called it either brilliant or repulsive and disgusting. Suffice it to say, this is not a book for anyone except those with the strongest of stomachs. Then things start to get downright disturbing.

There's Oly herself, an albino hunchback dwarf her brother Arty, who has flippers instead of human limbs and a sociopathic personality her sisters Elly and Iphy, who are Conjoined Twins, and the youngest, Chick, who appears outwardly normal but has strange telepathic powers. Lil and Al Binewski came up with a scheme to breed their own freak show, experimenting with a cocktail of drugs to create their perfect children.

For one, her parents were the owners of a traveling carnival. 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.Olympia Binewski did not grow up like other girls. “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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