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Hope House

byJoe Bond

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They are outcasts, runaways, delinquents. They’ve roamed the streets, stolen cars and dealt dope. They’ve hurt people; people have hurt them. Their futures promise dead end jobs, prison, or worse. But for now they’ve been brought together to live in an old house on a hill, to see about getting themselves – and each other – right.

These are the boys of Hope House, an institution for troubled young men in 1980s Kentucky. They’re boys who are coming of age into a society which has already closed its doors; boys who have never had families but who yearn to belong; boys with big dreams and beating hearts beneath their scars. And here at Hope House, as they grapple with their pasts and lift each other up, they might just manage to turn everything around.

A rare, brilliant, generous, bighearted book that mines hope from the darkest and most difficult human experiences

Gabriel Tallent, author of My Absolute Darling

About Joe Bond

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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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9781405988469
  • Length: 302 pages
  • Price: £9.99
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