A memoir of grit and grace, where abandonment gives way to belonging.

Set against America’s unforgiving interior—mountain isolation, Midwestern reckonings—The Cloud Grows Thin traces one man’s journey from parental neglect and institutional failure to military service, spiritual awakening, and the family he never thought possible.

Written with the haunted beauty of the Southern Gothic tradition transplanted to the American heartland, this is a story of resilience and redemption: not clawed from harsh landscapes, but found when grace breaks through the wreckage.

For readers of The Glass Castle and Hillbilly Elegy, with echoes of Cormac McCarthy’s landscapes, The Cloud Grows Thin is both a survival story and a testament to faith’s redemptive power.