How to Become a Complete Nonentity: A Memoir Book

A memoir about how a high school teacher in the author's home town wrote a steamy pulp novel based on actual town characters, then fled to Mexico, and how the locals reacted.

This starts out well, with hilarious excerpts from the novel, but gradually loses steam. At the end it becomes a portrait of the author's father, which has absolutely nothing to do with anything that's been set up earlier. About the fiftieth memoir I've read which would have made an excellent long essay.

I am very curious as to how he got permission to do such extensive excerpts from the pulp novel, which is not listed where one normally lists permissions. Unless maybe the whole thing is fiction? But if so, you'd think he'd have made it more dramatic.