Geek Love

Geek LoveNational Book Award finalist Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities (with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes). Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly

National Book Award finalist

Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities (with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes). Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family's most precious--and dangerous--asset.

As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/11/2002
ISBN: 9780375713347
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.18w x 0.81d

Review Citations: Newsweek 07/27/2009 pg. 57
Time 07/13/2009 pg. 55
People Weekly 08/27/2012 pg. 61
Entertainment Weekly 09/04/2015 pg. 45