A review of "...and uncertain light", Open Space, January 16 - February 14, 2003

"Hutzulak"s text creates small literary spaces which refer back to not only narrative and allegorical traditions in landscape painting but also to the dark, foreboding natural places in fairy tales.”

"An extravagantly mysterious and wildly original first novel …. This is a beautifully sad, lovely book."

"A taut neo-noir thriller that is simultaneously an engaging page-turner and a literary contemporary novel, showcasing a visually arresting style..... There are passages of such startling brilliance that the words seem to rise from the page.... The reader is constantly torn between the desire to savour each paragraph and the urgency to turn the page."

"With his exceptional eye for detail, Hutzulak immerses us in some vividly painful scenes.... makes us feel we're glimpsing an intimate secret, shadowing someone on a trip we're not sure we want to experience, even vicariously."

"This is a remarkable, at times terrifying, novel.... (A)n achievement in Canadian literature."

"This is an astonishing debut, powerful, scary, sexual, existential in scope. Hutzulak is a writer to watch, and possibly to fear."

"Hutzulak at his best creates scenes shimmering with presence, in which nothing is extraneous to his purpose. Even things such as an image seen in passing... resonate as emblems of something essential."

"Do not expect redemption or inspiration or much to hope for here but do expect to be affected. And if the intelligent writing is shades of things to come, Hutzulak will be one to watch."