ERIC GLOVER
Author of Barefoot and Bulletproof
“Muscular, heartfelt, and damn impressive… beautifully capturing both a special time of life and a toxic, dying place.”
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Barefoot ✦ Bulletproof ✦ Unforgettable
Welcome to Chat Rat Chronicles—a true collection of grit, laughter, and growing up wild in a town that doesn’t exist anymore. These are the untamed memories of two barefoot brothers and the family that built a life from scrap lumber, Sunday suppers, and sheer willpower. Before the mines closed and the maps erased our hometown, we made sure it gave us one unforgettable story to tell. This is where those stories live.
🎥 Barefoot and Bulletproof Video by author Eric Glover | Dementia, Memory Loss, and Picher Oklahoma
Why This Memoir Matters Now
“My dad forgot my name. My granddad forgot his son. And if I don’t fight back, one day I’ll forget my grandsons.”
“We’re not just losing people to dementia. We’re losing our towns. Our stories. Our truth.”
“I will not go quietly into that dark night.
I will ROAR, ROAR against the dying of the light.”
At its heart, this is the story of two brothers — growing up barefoot and bulletproof in Picher, Oklahoma, the most toxic town in America. It’s about mischief and mayhem, yes, but even more about memory, legacy, and the fire that keeps both alive.
This video is a declaration: the stories of Picher — and of millions of families fighting dementia — will not be silenced.
Barefoot and Bulletproof isn’t just a memoir—it’s the heartbeat
The Story That Sparked a Movement
In a town poisoned into oblivion, two brothers dared to live like nothing could touch them.
Barefoot and Bulletproof is their story—a wild, funny, and heartbreaking memoir about growing up fearless in America’s most toxic town and learning what it means to hold on when everything else disappears.
Coming soon — a breakout debut memoir you won’t forget.
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ROAR: Resisting Oblivion, Amplifying Remembrance.
Meet the Author
Storyteller, founder of the ROAR Movement, and the last kid out of a vanished town.
I’m Eric Glover—author of Barefoot and Bulletproof: The Dirty Little Glover Boys.
I grew up in Picher, Oklahoma, a town that no longer exists, where every memory feels like it’s fading beneath the dust. These stories are my way of remembering before it’s too late—and inviting others to do the same.
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The core of Barefoot and Bulletproof
is a fight for memory.
My great grandad, my grandad, and my father—three generations lost to forgetting. I am writing this memoir like my life depends on it, because it does.
This isn't just a book. It’s a flare in the dark. A defiant fist in the air. A record for my grandsons before it’s too late.
If you’ve watched someone fade, if you’ve felt helpless in the fog, or if you’re scared you’ll forget or be forgotten, you are not alone.
Stand With Us to Fight Forgetting:
ROAR: Resisting Oblivion — Amplifying Remembrance.
We are the children of fading fathers and silent mothers. We will not let them disappear without a fight.
If you believe MEMORY is worth fighting for, stand with us.
He built campers, boats, and boys—and believed there was always Next Spring.