The Cloud Grows Thin: A memoir

Finalist, 20th Annual National Indie Excellence® Awards

He was ten years old, sitting alone in a bus depot on Skid Row, waiting to find out which parent would take him — and which one wouldn't.

Neither wanted him. He would learn to stop being surprised by that.

The Cloud Grows Thin is the story of what a childhood like that does to a person — and what it takes, years later, to become someone who can raise his own sons differently. Michael LaFleur grew up between a father darkened by Vietnam an...