Upward Bound

Upward Bound gives us the world from the perspective of someone rarely noticed or understood . . . Wondrous and distinctly brilliant

RIVKA GALCHEN, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch

[A] groundbreaking debut novelist

Publishers Weekly

Woody Brown accomplishes the seemingly impossible; he gives voice to a character with a sensibility both intelligent, ironic and loveable, who cannot himself speak

MONA SIMPSON, author of Anywhere but Here

Upward Bound is a highly original, captivating, brilliantly observed novel about the power of human relationships and the complexities of communication

CAOILINN HUGHES, author of The Wild Laughter