Brian Martin

Connecticut connections: A Little Hope, by Ethan Joella, reviewed

Life in provincial East Coast America is full of hurt, regret and emotional entanglements – but there is always hope of fulfilment

Ethan Joella. 
issue 18 June 2022

A Little Hope, Ethan Joella’s debut novel, is about the lives of a dozen or so ordinary people who live in smalltown East Coast America. By helicopter over Connecticut ‘you wouldn’t notice Wharton right away’. Yet the problems its inhabitants face are universal.

There is the seemingly American Dream family – Greg, Freddie, Addie the daughter and Wizard the dog.

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