“Geek Love” is historically beloved by dark and eccentric artists, many of whom are famous. The book is about what happens after the circus impresario Aloysius Binewski feeds “cocaine, amphetamines, and arsenic” to his repeatedly pregnant wife, a retired geek named Crystal Lil, to genetically engineer a family of circus freaks. Oly plans to stop Lick in order to protect her daughter.When Katherine Dunn’s novel “ Geek Love” became Sonny Mehta’s first purchase as editor-in-chief at Knopf, she became famous in the literary world, at the age of forty-three, after years of obscurity. Lick is a wealthy woman who pays attractive women to get disfiguring operations, ostensibly so they may live up to their potential instead of becoming sex objects it is implied, however, that Lick's real motivation is to punish them for being more attractive than she is. There she meets Mary Lick, who tries to convince her to have the tail cut off. Miranda has a special defect of her own, a small tail, which she flaunts at a local fetish strip club.

Oly lives in the same rooming house as Miranda so she can 'spy' on her.

This had been urged by her brother Arty, who was also Miranda's father (not through sexual intercourse, but by the telekinetic powers of Chick, who carried Arty's sperm directly to Oly's ovum). She lives on a trust fund created by Oly before she gave up her daughter to be raised by nuns. Nineteen-year-old Miranda does not know Oly is her mother. The second story is set in the present and is centered on Oly's daughter, Miranda. As Arty battles his siblings to maintain control over his followers, competition between their respective freak shows slowly begins to take over their lives. Each member moves up in stages, losing increasingly significant chunks of their body, starting with their toes and fingers. In this cult, Arty persuades people to have their limbs amputated so that they can be like Arty, the cult leader, in their search for the principle he calls PIP ('Peace, Isolation, Purity'). They especially have to deal with the Machiavellian Arty as he develops his own cult: Arturism.

The novel takes place in two time periods: the first deals with the Binewski children's constant struggle against each other through life.

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