The Hope investigates many current Newfoundland and Labrador struggles: the tensions between official and unofficial memory and culture, the desire for radical and just economic and social change in the face of a dumbed down culture, apathy, selfishness, greed, celebrity worship et al. The.Hope. will speak in particular to critically minded people who find anything that calls itself an industry, such as the "cultural industry," suspect. Power's novel is sad, it's funny and it's clever, it's self-aware and self-critical.