2007: #127 – Geek Love (Katherine Dunn)

Book #127 was Geek Love by Katherine Dunn.  The back of the book reads: Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out–with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes–to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . .

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