"Geek Love" by Katherine Dunn

How do you review a book like this? There's an outrage on every page, and I mean that in only the most admiring sense. This vivid, surreal story features mutated individuals, but underneath all the lovely, diverting carnival atmosphere, is a scathing indictment on the Ameridcan focus on appearance. There are appalling, although true-to-life, events and consequences, but they're all seen from the inside out.

I don't know if Katherine Dunn has published anything else, but "Geek Love" secures her a place in my pantheon of amazing, awe-inspiring authors.