Read it because it talks about familiar issues of self worth, family loyalty and changing relationships or pick it up because it is fun to read about carnival geeks, either way Geek Love is certain to be worth your time.
"Katherine Dunns Geek Love (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1983) is the saga of Binewskis Fabulon, a traveling carnival, the star attractions of which are the Binewski children themselves. All are products of an ambitious breeding program devised by father Aloysius to reverse the Fabulons fall onto hard times. Determined to create special children, wife Crystal Lil ingests pharmaceuticals, insecticides, radioisotopes, and any other substances Al can procure. After all, Lil remarks, "What greater gift could you offer your children than an inherent ability to earn a living just by being themselves?" Flipper-limbed Arturo, Siamese twins Electra and Iphigenia, Chick the wonder, and hunchback albino dwarf Olympia are living testaments to the programs success and contributors to the Fabulons continued existence, as are the many less successful experiments displayed in glass jars in the Fabulons Hall of Horrors. "
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