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Katherine Dunn: Geek Love (2002, Vintage Books) 4 stars

National Book Award Finalist - Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek …

Strange and interesting

3 stars

A book about the chicken-biting type of Geek Love. An engineered "freak", the hunchbacked dwarf protagonist Oly, tells the story of her childhood and teen years living deeply enmeshed with her family in a travelling carnival, interspersed with chapters of her life at 38.

It's a strange but interesting read for the most part, though at times, horrifying. The first third grabbed me, but later in the book my attention waned at times and I found the ending a little unsatisfactory. I'm not sure I like it very much.