The hero of Lysley Tenorio’s sharp and compassionate debut novel, “The Son of Good Fortune”, isn’t sure of much about his identity, and what he is sure of isn’t good.
He knows he’s 19 and about to be a father with a woman who doesn’t want to talk to him. He knows he has a sudden $10,000 debt to pay off. He knows he can’t easily earn that money because he’s in the United States illegally. In Tagalog, he’s “tago ng tago” – hiding and hiding.