A review by vnesting
My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir by Chris Offutt

5.0

How does your understanding of your father change when you learn that he wrote more than 400 books in his lifetime -- most of them pornography? Upon his father's death, Chris Offutt (author of the critically acclaimed short story collection, Kentucky Straight) is left to sort through his father's office, which is filled with books, manuscripts, correspondence, comics, graphic novels, etc. Offutt's memoir is spare and incisive -- and occasionally heartbreaking -- as he seeks to understand his father's life and his own memories of growing up.