 The last of the "Raysburg Series", "The Clarinet Polka" (2002), was well received in the United States, particularly by the Polish American community.It received starred reviews from "Library Journal", "Publishers Weekly", "Booklist", and "Kirkus Reviews", and was included in "Booklist"’s Editors’ Choice ’03.It won the Polish American Historical Association's Creative Arts Prize, and came to the attention of scholars in Poland.