The novel is the story of a traveling carnival run by Aloysius "Al" Binewski and his wife "Crystal" Lil, and their children, seen through the eyes of their daughter Olympia ("Oly"), who writes the family history for her daughter Miranda.

Geek Love is a 1989 dystopian novel by Katherine Dunn. The novel is structured as a memoir written by Olympia “Oly” Binewski, an albino hunchback dwarf, as she chronicles the bizarre story of her family of carnival freaks.

Mar 1, 1989 · Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family's most precious ― and dangerous ― asset.

Olympia Binewski, known as Oly by her family and as Olympia “Hopalong” McGurk when she moves to Portland, is the protagonist and narrator of the story. She is born an albino hunchback dwarf and is part of a family that owns a traveling carnival.

Mar 1, 1989 · Olympia, the family’s narrator, is an albino hunchbacked dwarf, and their youngest brother, Chick, is the supposed norm but holds his own unique power—telekinesis. Through Oly’s perspective, readers encounter a bizarre familial dynamic steeped in manipulation and conflict.

At the striptease audition at the Glass House Club, Oly is pulled on stage and urged to take off her clothes. She does so not with shame, as the crowd expects, but instead with pride, showing off her deformities. She will not be made to feel like she is less because of her differences.

Oly is the protagonist of Geek Love and the daughter of Al and Crystal Lil Binewski. She is a hunchbacked albino who observes her family's strange and often disturbing antics from the sidelines.

Olympia, also known as Oly feels caught between her siblings who possess more noticeable physical abnormalities and talents that captivate audiences. This sense of being overlooked fuels her desire for attention and acceptance.

Iphy is acting more like Elly did before the surgery. Art finds out that Oly is pregnant through Chick and assumes Pin Kid is the father. Pin Kid disappears, but Oly doesn't think Arty killed him. Arty finally realizes that Oly is pregnant with his child, but doesn't take much interest in the...

The narrator of the story, Olympia, or Oly as she calls herself, tells the story of her life as an albino hunchback dwarf living with her family. As a member of the Binewski Fabulon, she takes a lot of pride in her unique and eccentric body.