The authors
Roots and Wings is told in two voices. Neither one gets the last word.
Photograph of Cedrick LaFleur — coming soon
Father, co-author
Cedrick brings the father's voice to Roots and Wings — the years of providing, correcting, worrying, and finally letting go. He writes about what it costs a man to hold steady while his son learns to fly, and about the values he inherited long before he had anyone to pass them to.
Photograph of Patrick LaFleur — coming soon
Son, co-author
Patrick writes the son's half of the story: the pull toward independence, the arguments that were never really about what they seemed, and the slow arrival at understanding. His chapters trace the distance between wanting to be trusted and learning to be trustworthy.
Fathers and sons rarely get to compare notes on the same years. One remembers holding the line; the other remembers pushing against it. Roots and Wings puts both accounts on the page — the support and the strain, the leaving and the returning — and then widens out to other pairs who agreed to tell the truth about their own.
The book is being written now. If you and your father, or you and your son, have a story worth telling, the authors want to hear it.