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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Oly loves her parents, but their treatment of her is up for debate. They make her sleep in the cupboard and make her feel inadequete for not being "special" enough, because her particular deformities aren't so marketable as those of her siblings. Then there's the whole issue of the parents deliberately taking drugs in order to create freakish, deformed children whom they could exploit.

* [[Body Horror]]

* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: {{spoiler|Oly has Chick impregnate her with Arty's sperm, and gives birth to a daughter, Miranda}}.

* [[Bungled Suicide]]: The Bag Man

* [[Psychic Powers]]: Chick.

* [[Heroic Albino|Protagonist Albino]]: Oly can't really be called heroic, per se; she mostly just tries to endure the terrible things she has to deal with, {{spoiler|and she ends up killing her daughter's would-be benefactor at the end}}. However, she is the viewpoint character. She also deals with the issues that albinos have to deal with in real life (poor vision and extreme sensitivity to light).

** The name of Oly's daughter, Miranda, is a reference to ''[[The Tempest]]'', which the author quotes at the beginning of the book.

** In the epilogue, Oly says in a letter to her daughter that she is "one of us", a reference to the film ''[[Freaks]]''.