Katherine Dunn: Herring

“She is suspicious and fearless and her progress is alarming.”

Katherine Dunn book Geek Love

Geek Love (1989)

“When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.”

Katherine Dunn book Geek Love

Source: Geek Love

“She blurbed through her Moms-All-Purpose-Adjustable-List-Of-Horrors that might have happened whenever a child is out of sight.”

Katherine Dunn book Geek Love

Geek Love (1989)

Moms

“And they looked at her, watched her, wanted to squirt her full of baby juice.”

Katherine Dunn book Geek Love

Geek Love (1989)

Baby

“It may be that the impressions of her infancy are caught somehow in the pulp of her eyes, luring her. Or there may be some hooked structure in her cells that twist her toward all that the world calls freakish.”

Katherine Dunn book Geek Love

Geek Love (1989)

World