MixedThe New York Journal of Books... a remarkably lyrical book, rooted into the evocative time and place that is the mid-20th century Catskills and beyond ... The crime is at last solved—or more precisely the solution is arrived at—in a final chapter that is meant to crystallize the ambiguities that haunt all the main characters. Yet the solution is perfunctory and unsatisfying—certainly not worth the work it took to follow the thread of the story by piecing together the voices of the various narrators over the years. The Hotel Neversink is an ambitious, skillfully written book. But it places considerable demands on its reader, which prevented this reviewer from thoroughly engaging with it.
