The Father Who Came Looking

On a cold November evening in 2019, thirteen-year-old Marcus slipped out of his grandmother's house in Memphis and didn't come back. He'd broken her antique clock — the one his late grandfather had brought from Haiti — and the shame was more than he could carry. He hid at a friend's apartment, then a cousin's, then a bus shelter on Poplar Avenue, layering one hiding place on top of another.…