{"product_id":"9781501150364","title":"No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home","description":"From the critically acclaimed author of the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Good Brother\u003c\/i\u003e and memoir \u003ci\u003eMy Father the Pornographer\u003c\/i\u003e comes the unforgettable memoir \u003ci\u003eNo Heroes\u003c\/i\u003e. “If you haven’t read Chris Offutt, you’ve missed an accomplished and compelling writer” (\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eInterwoven 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.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136916046064,"sku":"9781501150364","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781501150364_p0.jpg?v=1763706724","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781501150364","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}