From the critically acclaimed author of the novel

The Good Brother

and memoir

My Father the Pornographer

comes the unforgettable memoir

No Heroes

. “If you haven’t read Chris Offutt, you’ve missed an accomplished and compelling writer” (

Chicago Tribune

).

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 imagined: 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.