"Boots in the Grass" is Walter Delphin's autobiography. It's part historical novel set amidst the Creole culture in the Cane River farm community of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, and it also covers his time in Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California as a young man. His story takes you through the elephant grass of the Vietnam War, his subsequent personal heartbreak after returning from the war, and his life-long struggle with PTSD.