num_pages: 272
description: In his fortieth year, Chris Offutt returns to his alma mater, Morehead State University, the only four-year school in the Kentucky hills. He envisions leading the modest life of a teacher and father. Yet present-day reality collides painfully with memory, leaving Offutt in the midst of an adventure he never the search for a home that no longer exists.Interwoven with this bittersweet homecoming tale are the wartime stories of Offutt's parents-in-law, Arthur and Irene. An unlikely friendship develops between the eighty-year-old Polish Jew and the forty-year-old Kentucky hillbilly as Arthur and Offutt share comfort in exile, reliving the past at a distance. With masterful prose, Offutt combines these disparate accounts to create No Heroes, a profound meditation on family, home, the Holocaust, and history.
language: English
title: No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home
titlecomplete: No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home
genres: American, Short Stories, Education, Family, Nonfiction, Holocaust, Southern, Autobiography, Memoir, History
ratings_count: 249
publisher: Simon & Schuster