Lasso the Moon (Laurel-Leaf Books) - Tapa blanda

Seventeen-year-old April Hunter, whose father, a doctor, treats poor refugees from Latin America, falls in love with one of his father's patients, a lad from El Salvador whose horrifying life story seems implausible. Reprint.

-old April Hunter first sees Fernando, it is easy to dismiss him as just another of her father's indigent Latin American patients.
Yet, despite her feelings, April can't keep herself from thinking about Fernando. How did he get the horrendous scar on his neck? What is his birthplace, El Paraiso, El Salvador, like? As curiosity turns to fascination and fascination to love, April learns the horrifying and mind-boggling story of Fernando's life. But when she hears a different story from the Immigration and Naturalization Service, she has to wonder whom to trust.