HE TOOK HIS FIANCÉE TO HIS POOR HOMETOWN TO TEST HER—BUT THE PAPER SHE HANDED HIM LEFT HIM TOO ASHAMED TO MEET HER EYES

people don’t need to be tested for you to know they’re good. But if this is what you want, I’ll play along.”

That afternoon, when the shuttle stopped in front of the crooked wooden gate, Diego felt his heartbeat quicken.

The house looked exactly as he remembered: the sloping tin roof, rain-stained walls, dirt yard, dry straw near the fence, strings of continue reading …