![]() ![]() A student at a small liberal arts school-Dunn attended Reed-Sam is, in Sally’s words, a “spunky little character with an intellectual air.” He’s also a jackass. ![]() When her sister-in-law asks, “Remember Sam and Carlotta? Whatever became of them?” Sally drifts back to Portland in the 1960s. The narrator is Sally Gunnar, a woman who has chosen to live alone except for the goldfish she keeps in a jar on her kitchen table, the toad that lives in her yard, and the handful of visitors she invites into her house. This newly published novel suggests that this counterculture hero had a complicated relationship with the counterculture of her youth. She’s an author who wrote a book about outsiders who has been embraced by insiders. Few authors with one bestseller get an obituary in the New York Times, but Dunn achieved that distinction in 2016. Geek Love has never been out of print, and it continues to be a solid backlist performer. ![]() A posthumously published novel from the author of Geek Love (1989).ĭunn’s magnum opus-the tale of a family of carnival freaks-is a true cult classic, but the year it was published, it was also a finalist for the thoroughly mainstream National Book Award. ![]()
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