num_pages: 16
description: 11 Cassettes - Nominated for the National Book Award, Geek Love is mesmerizing, daring, and unconventional. Award-winning novelist Katherine Dunn fascinates and amazes much the same way tornados, earthquakes, and volcanos do. No one wants to be a victim, but most find the event too hypnotic to ignore. In order to save their traveling carnival from bankruptcy, the Binewskis are creating their own brood of sideshow freaks. Under Als careful direction, the pregnant Lil ingests radioisotopes, insecticides, and arsenic to make her babies special. As the oldest daughter, albino dwarf Olympia, puts listeners in the ring side seat, her familys incredible drama erupts and spills over into the normal world. Not for the squeamish or faint of heart, this brilliantly daring novel is shocking and delightful. Christina Moores vibrant narration conspires with Katherine Dunns evocative, energetic prose to shock us at seeing something of ourselves in these exotic characters.
language: English
title: Geek Love
titlecomplete: Geek Love
characters: Olympia "Oly" Binewski, Al Binewski, Arturo "Arty" Binewski
genres: Dark, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Literature, Horror, Fantasy, Adult, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 65745
places: Oregon
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Recorded Books