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 chickens in front of a carnival audience This she gave up for doting motherhood because she & her fairground-owning husband had a money spinning idea Throughout each pregnancy Lil gobbles pesticides experiments with drugs & douses herself with radiation to ensure that she prodcues infants grotesque enough to keep the turnstiles clicking She does Arturo the Aqua Boy is a limbless megalomaniac Electra & Iphigenia are musically gifted Siamese twins with a penchant for prostitution & Fortunato is possessed of stange telekinetic powers Their story- by turns shocking tender touching & cruel- is narrated by their sister Olympia She is a bald hunchbacked albino dwarf