Hudson in Recent Fiction

The flap about the Tourism Board and its mission questioned if Hudson needed to be "marketed," despite the fact that what the Tourism Board was trying to do was more nuanced than simply getting the word out about Hudson. A casual mention of Hudson, discovered in a work of fiction published in 2014, supports the notion that Hudson is already a household name.

The book is Emma Straub's novel The Vacationers. In the book, a New York City family--Jim and Franny, who have been married for thirty-five years; Sylvia, their youngest child, who has just graduated from high school; their older son, Bobby, and his girlfriend; Franny's best friend, Charles, and his husband--spend two weeks together in a house on the island of Mallorca. What was meant to be an idyllic vacation turns out to be quite different, and at one point, Charles and Lawrence, his husband, talk about where they can go to decompress after the vacation is over. The possibilities suggested by one of the pair: "Either Woodstock or Hudson."
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