A review by thuglibrarian
My Father, the Pornographer by Chris Offutt

5.0

Excellent read about the difficult and sometimes strained father/son relationship. Chris Offutt's father was a well known sci/fi author but was also a writer of porn...lots of it. Even though Chris and his siblings knew what their father wrote, they did not know the exact scope of the amount until Chris goes back to the family home after his father dies to help pack up the home. Chris has written a book that is part memoir, part literary sleuthing (what else did his father write?) and part the story of a adult man attempting to figure his father out. Beautifully written, with sentences that sparkle with life. It's a pulling back of the curtain on what it was like growing up in the hills of Kentucky with a father who was an obsessive writer.
Note: I received a free review copy of this book and was not compensated for it.