Aharon Appelfeld
Thane Rosenbaum's Second Hand Smoke is written with passion and energy, and it transcends the individual experience, penetrating into the roots of Jewish existence. This is a book not to be easily forgotten.
Chaim Potok
I found Thane Rosenbaum's novel, Second Hand Smoke, chilling and mesmerizing, its prose alternately poetic and demonic, its atmosphere at times Dantesque and at times Bellovian. An altogether gripping tale of the seemingly endless consequences of the Holocaust.
Elie Wiesel
In this new novel, Thane Rosenbaum continues, with tact and talent, his quest for the rediscovery of a vanished world and its haunted wanderers.
Daniel Goldhagen
As deadly on target as its title, Second Hand Smoke explores--with tragic sense and wit, with compassion and optimism--how parents' trauma is passed on to children, then transformed and resolved. Thane Rosenbaum's literary voice is singular, alluring, and important.
Author of Hitler's Willing Executioners
Rebecca Goldstein
Thane Rosenbaum writes with unique conviction, passion, and pathos. His voice of obsessive sorrow resonates with the truth about the post-Holocaust world, in which nothing can ever be entirely put right again.
Author of Mazel
Oscar Hijuelos
A fine and bristling family saga.
Author of The Mambo Kings Sing Songs of Love