![]() ![]() Clearly, questions of the body lie at the heart of Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love. ![]() Complicating this present-day frame is the standing of the mother, Olympia (or Oly) Binewski, as a hunchbacked dwarf who hopes to prevent her daughter, Miranda, from having her tail surgically removed-a tail that, while little more than a stub, serves as a genetic birthmark that links Miranda not only to her biological mother and father, a boy with dolphin-flippered limbs, but also to the Binewski Carnival Fabulon that exhibited both parents to countless crowds decades prior. On its surface, the present-day frame of Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love captures the story of a mother and the daughter whom she abandoned at birth but whose life she wishes to improve and on the periphery of which she wishes to reside in secret. ![]()
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