The loan came due on March 15. That was the date on the letter, printed in a font that made it look like the bank didn't even care enough to hand-write a threat.
Ruth Hargrove folded the letter and put it in the kitchen drawer next to the matches and the rubber bands and the bottle of ibuprofen that had expired in November. She didn't need to read it again. She knew the numbers: one hundred eighty-seven thousand dollars, or the bank takes the land. She sat at the kitchen table at half past six on a Monday in February and added up the numbers again. She...
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