I've only read ten pages of this book, & I won't read anymore.I understand that it is fiction & humor. But oh! How I wish Katherine Dunn had created some fake disorders to go along with her fake science, instead of revealing her ignorance about real ones."I was mad at Maribelle. She was a pinhead who'd been with your mother and me for a long while. She was trying to hold me up for a raise I couldn't afford."Wow. Does she even know what a "pinhead" (microcephile) is?If you have any real interest in or prior knowledge of circus freaks, sideshows or "human oddities," & aren't one of those humans who find the victims of physical abnormalities "repulsive" or "horrifying," you will immediately be disappointed by this book.I know I was.