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Critical Praise

"Pleasantly bizarre…an unusual and inventive work…refreshingly strange."

Publishers Weekly

"Modern Jewish fiction has generally preferred to depict the Oedipal struggle. A strange, durable love --- not Roth’s sublimated hatred, not Kafka’s fear --- reigns in Crossing the Hudson...[a] journey taken far too infrequently by Jungk’s literary predecessors.."

Times Literary Supplement

"Jungk’s beautiful, surpassingly strange novel deals with emotions and faith... a treatment of father-son relationships that’s both deeply intimate and deeply intellectual.."

The Star Tribune Read the full review here.

"The details in Crossing the Hudson [give] this novel about the troubled generations of a post-War Jewish family a verisimilitude that draws readers in...Jungk's telling of the story is irresistible."

ForeWord Magazine

"Brilliantly blending reality and fantasy, Peter Stephan Jungk has written an intriguing novel...set forth with great wit and skill."

The National Jewish Post and Opinion

"A stirring meditation on family, faith and intellect…Jungk's beautiful, uncanny work breaks new ground in stories about fathers and sons."

Kirkus Reviews