In Geek Love, Dunn proffers a vision of a human family -The Fabulous Binewskis- that moves from the American Dream into a postmodern paradigm. Through the study of the Binewski family's teratogenesis, the unconscious horror of the American Nightmare is brought to consciousness. The fixed construct of normalcy is thrown into chaos. The disabled body is located at the center of the cultural matrix where its lived experience is allowed to flourish, and to also parody the habits of the normate. As a result, the binary of the abnormal body and the normal body is broken down and thus the discovery that the narrow definition of acceptable genetic expression may be cultivating a defective body. Ultimately, what happens to the "survival of the fittest" competitive scheme of social Darwinism if the genetic counselor is a Jackson Pollock, a Pablo Picasso or Geek Love's patriarch, Al "Papa" Binewski?