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No Heroes : A Memoir of Coming Home
No Heroes A Memoir of Coming Home
Author: Chris Offutt
Wearing blue jeans meant I was a local. The gray in my hair meant I'd been away. Word of my impending return spread throughout the county. Some stories would have me moving in with my folks because one of them was very sick. Another had me purchasing my old grade school and converting it into an art colony. I was living in a houseboat on Cave...  more »

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. The New Yorker crowned Chris Offutt's 1993 memoir, The Same River Twice, the "memoir of the decade." No Heroes is a sure contender to reclaim that honor, lifting the tale of one man's homecoming to universal significance.
ISBN-13: 9780684865515
ISBN-10: 0684865513
Publication Date: 3/26/2002
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Simon Schuster
Book Type: Hardcover
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This book weaves the memories of two Holocaust survivors with the author's return to his hometown in Kentucky.

The Holocaust survivors happen to be the author's mother-in-law and father-in-law. The opening of this window into their past is quite the emotional experience for their daughter, who had never been told the details by her parents.


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