The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 8th, 1998
The Odd Sea. By Frederick Reiken. Harcourt Brace. 201 pages. $22.
Happy families are not all alike, and the strength of Frederick Reiken's sensitive first novel, "The Odd Sea," resides in its portrayal of a family coping with loss.
Reiken who lives in western Massachusetts, where he is a reporter with the Daily Hampshire Gazette has created characters of genuine emotional complexity, seen through the eyes of an adolescent boy. This poses an obvious technical challenge, in view of the narrator's limited experience but Reiken meets it. What's more, the tone of the story does not suggest, as so...
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