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Geek Love
by Katherine Dunn
REREAD MAY 2020: I LOVE IT EVEN MORE
Carnival acts, sibling rivalry, scandal, murder, quasi-religious cults, and lots and lots of surgical operations ... Geek Love is a freakishly fascinating story about the Binewskis, a family whose children are born with mutations intentionally created by drugs and radioisotopes. The Binewskis travel across the country, embracing the oddities of their human bodies to lure in audiences and perform stellar carnival acts. But their physical mutations lead then to have seemingly superhuman personalities, for better or for worse. This story is full of characters you love to hate, characters you hate that you love, and characters you want to just slap in the face. Katherine Dunn does a wonderful job of weaving together moments of the Binewskis lives to create a masterpiece reflection on what's considered ugly or beautiful, sane or insane. The book is written amazingly, so much so that I was absolutely disgusted by the characters - not because of their physical appearances and unique traits but because of the mentalities they'd learned to develop as a result of their way of life. Riveting, dark, and sometimes even horrifying, Geek Love was definitely a page turner. But beware, because each chapter gets more and more bizarre and unsettling than the last.
Carnival acts, sibling rivalry, scandal, murder, quasi-religious cults, and lots and lots of surgical operations ... Geek Love is a freakishly fascinating story about the Binewskis, a family whose children are born with mutations intentionally created by drugs and radioisotopes. The Binewskis travel across the country, embracing the oddities of their human bodies to lure in audiences and perform stellar carnival acts. But their physical mutations lead then to have seemingly superhuman personalities, for better or for worse. This story is full of characters you love to hate, characters you hate that you love, and characters you want to just slap in the face. Katherine Dunn does a wonderful job of weaving together moments of the Binewskis lives to create a masterpiece reflection on what's considered ugly or beautiful, sane or insane. The book is written amazingly, so much so that I was absolutely disgusted by the characters - not because of their physical appearances and unique traits but because of the mentalities they'd learned to develop as a result of their way of life. Riveting, dark, and sometimes even horrifying, Geek Love was definitely a page turner. But beware, because each chapter gets more and more bizarre and unsettling than the last.