"I had the great pleasure of picking Bond's amazing short story for an award years ago, and what a thrill it is to see how it's grown into 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

"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

"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 [and] a clarion call for the value of compassion and the possibility of rehabilitation." --Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Bond's debut novel subtly tells the stories of several staff members and residents of a group home for troubled teenage boys in 1980s Kentucky. This is a slow-burning but moving account of adolescence under duress. A haunting story of the search for a better life." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"With sinewy, loquacious eloquence, the novel Hope House explores the tenuous cycles of youth rehabilitation and the innate need for belonging." --Meg Nola, Foreword Reviews, 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." --Michael Welch, Chicago Review of Books

"A rare, brilliant, generous, bighearted book that mines hope from the darkest and most difficult human experiences." --Gabriel Tallent, author of My Absolute Darling and Crux

"The Hope House boys may be delinquents and criminals--as they sometimes call themselves--but they're not caricatures, sketches, stock characters. They're fully fledged. They're real boys with beating hearts beneath all those scars. They have dignity. Bond tells this fictional version of life in a treatment home with a reporter's eye, a counselor's heart, and a peer's knowing. He cares about these kids and what becomes of them. But he presents them with what feels like unflinching honesty." --David Wesley Williams, Chapter 16