{"product_id":"no-heroes-a-memoir-of-coming-home-9780684865522","title":"No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Chris Offutt\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary Figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn his fortieth year, Chris Offutt returns to his alma mater, Morehead State University, the only four-year school in the Kentucky hills.\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eNo Heroes, \u003c\/i\u003e a profound meditation on family, home, the Holocaust, and history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45409324105879,"sku":"9780684865522","price":1492.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780684865522.webp?v=1767311280","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/no-heroes-a-memoir-of-coming-home-9780684865522","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}