Geek Love: A Novel
by Katherine Dunn

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Book Review: Extraordinary insight into the formation of the human psyche
Summary: 5 Stars

The heroine, daughter of a wealthy Boston family, runs away and marries a circus owner. The circus, hit by the growth of the movies, needs a new crowd-puller, so she starts a series of pregnancies during which she doses herself with radiaton, drugs, and anything toxic she can lay her hands on in order to produce a series of deformed children who can appear in the circus's Freak Show.

Gruesome sounding, but executed with extraordinary finesse and compassion, what follows is an examination of the relationship between appearance, reaction and character formation. Arturo, the limbless Aqua Boy, becomes the megalomaniac leader of a cult of self mutilation. Other offspring are simmilarly responsive to their own appearances.

Funny, sad, sick, fine, and with THE best and most moving ending of any book I can recall, this is a rare treat. Buy it.

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