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"House of Good Hope is just a beautiful book, filled with the poignant bittersweet of hope and loss. Michael Downs writes about friendship. He writes about the promises we try to keep. He writes about poverty and despair. The subjects are agonizing, but they shine with the poetic clarity of Downs's prose."
:: Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights and A Prayer for the City
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 House of Good Hope: A Promise for a Broken City (winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize)
House of Good Hope is Michael Downs' book of literary journalism and memoir. Winner of the 2006 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, House of Good Hope follows five young men from Hartford, Conn., who made a teenaged promise to dedicate themselves to their hometown, a deteriorating city where hope wrestles with despair. It is a story of love, sacrifice, and murder; big-time college football and police brutality; a drug sting that fells a high school coach; and, finally, a reunion of friends who have learned how hard it is to honor the past and live for the future in a place like Hartford. Downs tells their story while struggling with his own decision to leave Hartford and his ailing grandparents who, like the city, suffer the deteriorations of age.
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