Hope can come in many forms, and in the novel Hopscotch, it comes in the form of a hopscotch board drawn on the sidewalk leading to the entrance of a hospital in Greensboro, North Carolina. 

Nobody knows who drew the hopscotch board, and at first the hospital’s cleaning crew is ordered to wash it away, but each day it mysteriously reappears.  Eventually physicians, hospital employees, and patients, including Emily, an 8-year-old fighting cancer, Stan, an Iraqi War veteran, and Metalhead Mike, a 10-year-old brain-damaged boy, are drawn to this hopscotch board. 

Hopscotch is a story about the healing power of hope, about remembering what it was like to be a child, and how the simplest thing can effect and change so many lives for the better

PUBLISHER AND ACCOLADES

Livingston Press, May 2017

“Hopscotch is painful, passionate, hopeful, and ultimately magical — a true triumph-of-the-spirit tale.”
-Lisa Barr, New York Times-bestselling author of WOMAN ON FIRE

“In this moving and sensitive gem of a story…Cushman’s wonderful cast of will warm your heart, allowing you to believe again in the power of friendship rediscovered over a childhood game.”
–Miriam Herin, Novello Literary Award winning author of ABSOLUTION and A STONE FOR BREAD

“Hopscotch transported me back to a time when I believed anything was possible and hope was tangible. What a beautiful story of the human spirit and how our arbitrary lives sometimes intertwine without notice. Original and stirring.”
-Celeste Fletcher McHale, Okra Pick and bestselling author of THE SECRET TO HUMMINGBIRD CAKE

“A clear, inspiring story about needing a bit of hope to cross the distance.”
-Kirkus Reviews

“In lesser hands, a novel set at a hospital, dealing frankly with illness, death and despair, could be depressing. In the hands of Cushman, storyteller and poet, it is quite the opposite.”
-Greensboro News & Record