![]() ![]() ![]() Born and bred for their oddities, Olympia’s siblings-Arturo, the flipper boy Iphigenia and Electra, piano-virtuoso Siamese twins joined at the waist and Chip, whose towheaded normal appearance belies his powerful telekinetic abilities-travel the country as the Fabulon’s star attractions. And they are each surrounded by a cast of, to put it mildly, unusual characters. This was for very literal reasons: Olympia Binewski, the hunchbacked dwarf who recounts the humorously tragic story of Binewski’s Carnival Fabulon in Dunn’s novel, and Zal, the Iranian boy at the center of Khakpour’s book, who spends the first ten years of his life confined to a cage, are both albinos. Katherine Dunn’s now-classic novel, Geek Love, came straight to mind when I read Porochista Khakpour’s The Last Illusion. ![]()
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