Geek Love: A Novel
A wild, often horrifying, novel about freaks, geeks and other aberrancies of the human condition who travel together (a whole family of them) as a circus. It's a solipsistic funhouse world that makes "normal" people seem bland and pitiful.  Arturo the Aqua-Boy, who has flippers and an enormous need to be loved. A museum of sacred monsters that didn't make it.  An endearing "little beetle" of a heroine. Sort of like Tod Browning'sFreakscrossed with David Lynch and John Irving and perhaps George Eliot -- the latter for the power of the emotions evoked.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.