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Two stories are told. The first deals with the Binewski children's constant vicious struggle against each other, but especially against Arty as he develops his own Cult : Arturism. Arturism involves members having their limbs amputated so that they can end up like Arty, the cult leader, in their search for the principle he calls PIP ("Peace, Isolation, Purity"). Each member moves up in stages, losing increasingly significant chunks of their limbs based on how much money they contribute to the cult. As Arty battles his siblings to maintain control over his followers, mundane aspects of their lives, such as competition between their respective freak shows, slowly begin to take over their lives. The second story involves Oly's daughter, Miranda. Miranda, in her early twenties, does not know Oly is her mother, and lives on a trust fund set up by Oly before she was given up to be raised by nuns at the urging of Arturo, who is coincidentally Miranda's father. Oly lives in the same rooming house as Miranda so she can "spy" on her. Miranda has a special defect of her own, a small tail, which she flaunts at a local fetish strip club. Mary Lick, a wealthy woman who pays poor but attractive women to get operations that disfigure them so that they may live up to their potential instead of becoming sex objects, tries to convince her to have it cut off. Oly's plan is to stop Lick in order to protect her daughter. Though no filmed version is finished yet, it is rumored that director Tim Burton wants to eventually sign on with the project. Dunn worked on the novel for ten years. Two inspirations came from the Jonestown deaths and from a Rose garden in Portland, Oregon (this inspiration was put into the novel; it's the same way Aloysius Binewski comes up with the idea of his designed children). Recently SensurroundStagings in Atlanta produced a well received stage adaptation of ''Geek Love''. This adaptation was reprised in Atlanta for Summer 2004 and then taken to the New York Fringe Festival later that year. Ohio filmmaker Morgan Akerman and Comic Book creator Ray Basham have begun work on an animated version of Geek Love which Akerman says is "Very faithful to the book." EXTERNAL LINK |
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