Lil Binewski, born a Boston aristocrat, was in her time the most stylish of geeks. That is to say she made her living by biting the heads off live chicken in front of a carnival audience. This she gave up for doting motherhood, because she and her fairground owning husband had a money spinning idea. Throughout each preganancy Lil gobbles pesticides, experiments with drugs aand douses herself with radiation to ensure that she produces infants grotesque enough to keep the turnstiles clicking. She does. Arturo the Aqua Boy is a limbless megalomaniac, Electra nd Iphigenia are musically gifted conjoined twins with a penchant for prostitution and Fortunato is possessed of strange telekinetic powers. Their story - by turns shocking, tender, touching and cruel - is narrated by their sister Olympia. She is a bald, hunchbacked albino dwarf.