Odyssey Magazine, in their international January/February 2007 issue says, “What sets Rouman’s novel apart is his insight into immigrant life in small town America….A laudable effort, Underwater Dreams is an interesting addition to the literature of the Greek American immigrant experience.”

Connecticut Medicine highlights the medical angle, “This is not a tale that requires familiarity with the writer to grip the reader in its spell. For any physician who has heard a colleague say at retirement, ‘I think I have at least one book in me and now I’m going to write it,’ this is one that really got written and deserves a read.”

Historywire.com, January 27, 2007, in Book Alert, “The new novel by retired anesthesiologist James Rouman is a welcome gift. …Rouman is at his best in the difficult task of capturing urban black dialect in dialogue between characters Martha and Daisy, as their friendship deepens.”

Kirkus notes, “The most intimate—and interesting — sections of the novel are the descriptions of anesthesiology: ‘We have a connection to our patients no other doctors have...when they’re asleep there’s a constant dialogue going on between us...only the linguistics are different…It’s almost a spiritual thing that’s hard to explain.’”

Midwest Book Review calls it, “A dramatic and bittersweet tale, which paints thoroughly believable characters to the very end.”

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