News!

    Keeper and Kid is out in trade paperback from St. Martin’s Griffin. Here’s some of what people have been saying:

    “In Leo {Hardy} has created one of the most enchantingly realistic tots in recent fiction. We don’t know whether to keep turning the pages or dive into them and offer to help baby-sit.”

                                                  - Amanda Heller, The Boston Globe

    “Keeper and Kid is an unconventional but skillful and ultimately satisfying novel. It leaves the reader with a true but too rarely expressed picture of how complicated life can become and how we all have the capacity to handle more than we think.”

                                        - Kristin Latina, The Providence Journal

    “Keeper and Kid is funny. It isn’t merely “amusing,” it is downright funny....{Hardy} creates characters so eccentric and endearing you’ll be sorry to see the last of them...Keeper and Kid is a keeper. It will find a home on your bookshelf in the section with other books about the human heart.”

                                      - Dan Hays, Statesman-Journal (Salem, OR)

    “A wonderful journey of thoughtful, reluctant fatherhood. Highly recommended.”  - Library Journal

Click here for chapter one.

Click here for more about Keeper and Kid.

Click here for a reading guide.