Katherine Dunn
1) Toad
Author
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sally Gunnar has withdrawn from the world. She spends her days alone at home, reading drugstore mysteries, polishing the doorknobs, waxing the floors. Her only companions are a vase of godfish, a garden toad, and the door-to-door salesman who sells her cleaning suplies once a month. She broods over her deepest regrets: her blighted romances with self-important men, her lifelong struggle to feel at home in her body, and her wayward early twenties,...
2) Geek love
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Aloysious and Lillian Binewski, proprietors of a traveling carnival, attempt to reduce overhead by breeding their own freak show, with tragic results.