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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: Job Interview
- Chapter 2: Arthur Goes to War
- Chapter 3: Irene Goes to the Ghetto
- Chapter 4: Nine-Mile at the Video Store
- Chapter 5: Arthur Meets Irene
- Chapter 6: Irene Finds Freedom
- Chapter 7: Beginning the Book
- Chapter 8: The Library and Mrs. Jayne
- Chapter 9: Arthur Works at a Labor Camp
- Chapter 10: Irene Is Saved in Plaszow
- Chapter 11: No Heroes
- Chapter 12: First Day of School
- Chapter 13: Sam and James Learn About the Holocaust
- Chapter 14: Hot Rod to Haldeman
- Chapter 15: Arthur Becomes a Handyman
- Chapter 16: Irene Sees Beno
- Chapter 17: Soup Beans and Corn Bread
- Chapter 18: Arthur Finds a Friend
- Chapter 19: Poetry Saves Irene
- Chapter 20: Harley in a Car
- Chapter 21: Arthur Volunteers for a Concentration Camp
- Chapter 22: Irene Stays Healthy
- Chapter 23: Dirty Money
- Chapter 24: Jimmy Joe at the Video
- Chapter 25: Arthur Loses an Eye
- Chapter 26: The Worst Thing for Irene
- Chapter 27: College Students Now and Then
- Chapter 28: Arthur Faces Firing Squads
- Chapter 29: Irene Is Saved Again
- Chapter 30: Brothers of the Hill
- Chapter 31: Arthur Breaks His Arm
- Chapter 32: Irene Saves a Boy
- Chapter 33: The Best Cake
- Chapter 34: Christmas Break
- Chapter 35: Arthur’s Christmas in Camp
- Chapter 36: Irene’s Christmas in Camp
- Chapter 37: A Hollow with Houses
- Chapter 38: Arthur’s Last Camp
- Chapter 39: Irene Goes to a Better Camp
- Chapter 40: Tilden Hogge and Poppin Rock
- Chapter 41: Everything Is Simple
- Chapter 42: Lunch with Alpha Three
- Chapter 43: Arthur’s Oath of Silence
- Chapter 44: Bearing Pall
- Chapter 45: Arthur Goes on a Death March
- Chapter 46: Irene Goes on a Death March
- Chapter 47: Shrimp and Harley on Foot
- Chapter 48: Everything Is Okay
- Chapter 49: Swapping Up
- Chapter 50: Preserving a Name
- Chapter 51: Class Dismissed
- Chapter 52: Arthur Sleeps in a Bed
- Chapter 53: Irene Finds Arthur
- Chapter 54: Town Is Where You Go
- Chapter 55: Unleashing History
- Chapter 56: Arthur’s War Is Over
- Chapter 57: Irene Won’t Steal Clothes
- Chapter 58: Burying an Owl
- Chapter 59: Arthur Thinks of Home
- Epilogue
- Copyright
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