Chapter 20 — The Rusted Key

Alvin, in the aftermath, tried to solve everything the way he knew how, the way he had always tried to solve things: with resources.

He offered to buy his parents a luxury condo in Atlanta, to hire a full-time live-in housekeeper, to provide private drivers, to lift them out of the old house and its stairs and its memories and set them down somewhere gleaming and easy and safe.

“No, Alvin,” Carmen said gently, sitting beside him on the front porch swing.