“At Hope, we were capable of cruelty, of pettiness and bullying,” Joe Bond writes in Hope House, his debut novel, “but also we believed it when Watts told us that our lives were in each other’s hands.” True to this insight, Bond’s noveldoes not fixate on the worst of its characters’ transgressions but rather on what they can now make of themselves and of each other — given home, given hope. Hope House paints a beautiful, humane portrait of masculinity that is as tender as it is profane.