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Kevin Sampsell always thought he was part of a normal family growing up in the Pacific Northwest. He never wondered why his older siblings had different last names or why one of them was black. But when his estranged father passed away in 2008, his mother revealed to him some of the family’s mysterious and unsettling history. A history of betrayal, madness, and incest. A Common Pornography is a uniquely crafted, two-pronged "memory experiment": a collection of sweet and funny snapshots from his childhood, and an unsensational portrait of a family in crisis. Sampsell blends the catastrophic with the mundane and the humorous with the horrific. From his mother's first tumultuous marriages and his father's shocking abuse of his half sister to Kevin's own memories of first jobs, first bands, and first loves, here is a searing, intensely honest memoir that exposes the many haunting shades of a family—both its tragedy and its resiliency. From Publishers WeeklyA memoir in collage form, this frank but fragmented narrative chronicles the author's early life in the Pacific Northwest. Told in a series of small pieces, some less than a quarter of a page long, Sampsell follows a stream-of-consci

Who reads A Common Pornography: A Memoir (P.S.)?

Author

Kevin Sampsell [Sampsell, Kevin]

Publisher

HarperCollins e-books

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060528423

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Social Science, History

Rating

4.07 / 5 (143,039 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14