FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE: A BRAIDED MEMOIR

Don Schofield

From the Cyclops Cave: A Braided Memoir intertwines past and present, weaving a turbulent childhood in 1950s California—including two years in Hanna Boys Center (Sonoma) and a year in the San Francisco Boys’ Club (Fillmore District, SF)–with an adult life shaped by solitude on a remote island in Greece. Abandoned by his father and raised by strangers, the author grows up yearning for connection; decades later, in a primitive hut locals call the Cyclops Cave, he finds both refuge and reckoning. Through braided chapters moving between memory and the immediacy of Greek island life, this poignant memoir explores resilience, identity, and the lifelong journey to home and a place he belongs.