Hope House

A rare, brilliant, generous, bighearted book that mines hope from the darkest and most difficult human experiences * Gabriel Tallent, author of My Absolute Darling *
Heartbreaking, redemptive and deeply empathic, this radiates Bond’s love for his characters, which the reader comes to share too * Daily Mail *
Hope House is a stunningly beautiful debut; a novel of life on the margins, written with style and grace, and populated with characters that stay with you long after the final page * Tom Newlands, author of Only Here, Only Now *
A chorus of young men holed up in an institution for “delinquents” in the American south in the 1980s tell their stories in this unflinching, hopeful portrait of life on the margins … I loved this open-hearted coming-of-age story about the search for belonging * Bookseller, Editor’s Choice *
This beautifully told novel, heartbreaking and heart-healing, illuminates what it means to call a place home * Kim Edwards, author of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter *
[A] gut-punch of a debut … Authentic and often heartbreaking … A clarion call for the value of compassion and the possibility of rehabilitation * Publishers Weekly, starred review *
Bond delivers blows right to your heart while also bringing so much care, love, and generosity to a population who are all too often pushed to the edges of society. Hope House is the type of book I’m thankful exists, and one that certainly deserves your undivided attention. * Chicago Review of Books *
A beautiful novel of such tender frankness, building the lives of this group of kids with bottomless care and a fiercely keen eye for detail and movement * Aimee Bender, author of The Butterfly Lampshade *
A slow-burning but moving account of adolescence under duress. A haunting story of the search for a better life * Kirkus, starred review *
With sinewy, loquacious eloquence, the novel Hope House explores the tenuous cycles of youth rehabilitation and the innate need for belonging * Foreword, starred review *

Joe Bond grew up around group homes and residential treatment programs in eastern Kentucky. He’s been a child-care worker, a copy editor, a security guard at a psychiatric hospital, and a research librarian at a law firm in Times Square. For several years, he covered mixed martial arts fighting for ESPN and various magazines and newspapers throughout the U.S., Brazil, and Japan. He began working on Hope House after his story “Damico” won the Masters Review Short Story Award. He lives in New Orleans.

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