Reviews of The Gypsy Man

Only when you read two or three new books a week for five or six years do you realize how truly rare a novel like this is. The Gypsy Man is a story. It's the kind of story that, when you were young, your mother might have let you check out of the library's adult section. She'd know it would be all right for a curious kid to read because the binding would be well broken, the pages well thumbed, and that telltale red line denoting explicit sex [would be] absent. Above all, the library would have reassured her that The Gypsy Man was rooted in history, the research authentic, its author had taught at Harvard, and — this is difficult to put into words, because it really is rare — the characters depicted here appear to be real, like human beings. Not squalid human beings, or fancy ones, or even smart ones. Just real ones.

— Carolyn See, The Los Angeles Times

A bitterly emotional novel . . . a tense, exciting mystery which ultimately concludes as a morality play.

— St. Lous Post-Dispatch

An intense and powerful tale.

— The Pittsburgh Press