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“It’s a truly mad, brilliant novel. Al Binewski, the owner of a travelling carnival, marries a Boston aristocrat who has run away from privilege to become an aerialist, but suffers a catastrophic injury that curtails her planned career. Needing to drum up interest in the carnival, they decide to have children and to expose Lil to prescription drugs, insecticides and ‘radioisotopes’ in order to intentionally mutate their children, so they can perform in the carnival and always have something unique that they can monetise; an ‘inherited security’ of the type Lil’s privileged background gave her.” Read more...
Heather Parry, Novelist
