Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon is a travelogue

Travel literature

Travel literature is travel writing of literary value. Travel literature typically records the experiences of an author touring a place for the pleasure of travel. An individual work is sometimes called a travelogue or itinerary. Travel literature may be cross-cultural or transnational in focus, or...

 by novelist Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk

Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist. He is best known for the award-winning novel Fight Club, which was later made into a film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter...

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The book alternates between autobiographical chapters, and lists of the author's favorite activities in his home city of Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

, in the Pacific Northwest

Pacific Northwest

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 of the United States

United States

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Palahniuk guides the reader to eviction

Eviction

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 court for evocative storytelling, a massive Goodwill

Goodwill

Goodwill or Good Will may refer to:* Goodwill , the value of a business entity not directly attributable to its assets and liabilities* Goodwill, Maryland, United States...

 charity sale for purchasing clothes by the pound, and to clubs and sexual fetish organizations.