D. W. Landreaux

A debut novel by D. W. Landreaux

The name was given.
The truth was buried.

A Southern story of adoption, identity, memory, and the enduring pull of home.

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The Name They Gave Me · A Novel of Family and Reckoning

Some names are inherited.
Others must be reclaimed.

Rooted in the landscapes and traditions of Louisiana, D. W. Landreaux’s debut novel explores what it means to inherit a life shaped by other people’s choices—and what it takes to finally claim your own story.

Through family secrets, hard-won resilience, faith, and the ache of belonging, The Name They Gave Me asks a question that reaches beyond one family: how much of who we are is determined by where we began, and how much can we choose for ourselves?

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“We spend years becoming the person the world expects—then a lifetime discovering the person we were meant to be.”
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About the author

A life of service.
A calling to tell stories.

D. W. Landreaux is a retired United States Air Force colonel, career public servant, husband, father, and grandfather. The Name They Gave Me is his debut novel.

His writing draws on the emotional truths of adoption and identity, the complexity of family, and the enduring influence of Louisiana. After a career devoted to service and leadership, he now turns to stories about the forces that shape us—and the courage required to understand them.

He lives in Virginia with his wife, Roxanne, and writes under the Landreaux Cypress Press imprint.

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