Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon Chuck Palahniuk

This is a nonfiction travel guide and memoir in which Chuck Palahniuk tours Portland's fringe culture—ghost stories, odd museums, sex clubs, gardens, and underground history—interwoven with autobiographical postcards from his young adulthood. The book mixes dark humor and local color with explicit descriptions of Portland's adult entertainment industry, drug use, violence, and taboo personal anecdotes.

This book’s main concerns are; alcohol, animal cruelty/macabre displays/ exploitative, BDSM (extensively), drag/gender-nonconforming content, drugs, dubious consent, erotica, explicit sexual activities/nudity, explicit sexual dialogue, fetishes, gore, huffing (explicit), incest (referenced), kinks, murder, paranormal/occult-type content, patently offensive sexual content, pervasively vulgar content, porn (explicit and significant), prostitution (significant), prurient behaviors (significant), sex exploitation (significant), sex toys, sex trafficking (referenced), sexual assault/sexual coercion, sexual nudity, suicide, violence, and voyeurism.