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

3.0

There is another truth universally acknowledged: one is always embarrassed by one’s parents at some point. Usually, the embarrassment springs from changes in culture, fashion, technology, and ideas. That’s usually the extent of it. Chris Offutt’s father embarrasses his family by writing more than 100 pornographic novels over decades. Embarrassment, however, is not the first emotion Offutt experiences when thinking of his father. Offutt the Elder, as revealed in the Younger’s memoir, My Father, the Pornographer, inspires terror in his children. In the two years following Offutt the Elder’s death, Chris goes through his father’s manuscripts, letters, and books in an attempt to understand an angry, narcissistic, prolific writer and parent...

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