Title: No Heroes
First published: 2002
Description: "In his fortieth year, Chris Offutt returns to teach at his alma mater, Morehead State University, the only four-year school in the Kentucky hills. With the humblest of intentions, he expects to give back to his community, hoping to become, quietly, a hero of sorts. Yet present-day reality collides painfully with memory, leaving Offutt in the midst of an adventure he never imagined: searching for a home that no longer exists.".

"During that same year, Offutt records the story of his parents-in-law, Arthur and Irene, Holocaust survivors who emigrated to New York from Poland in 1946. Their moving chronicle of exile and war entwines with Offutt's attempt to find a sense of safety and home. But it is Arthur who sagely states that "home is illusory" and there are "no heroes" in life."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: American Novelists, Biography, Homes and haunts, Intellectual life, Novelists, American, Social life and customs, New York Times reviewed, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives, Holocaust survivors
Places: Kentucky
People: Chris Offutt (1958-)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3565.F387 Z474 2002