The Wrecked, Blessed Body Of Shelton Lafleur

The Story

It is Depression-era New Orleans, and Shelton Lafleur, eight years old, tumbles from the top of a tree, crippling him for life. Deliverance arrives in the form of a man named Minou, who takes Shelton into his family and under his tutelage. 'This is the stuff of which classics are made and what literature is all about'.--Los Angeles Book Review.