"Absorbing. . . . An almost Proustian portrait." –
The New York Times "Said has turned the writing of a memoir itself into perhaps the most profound type of homecoming a perennial exile can know." –
The Village Voice Literary Supplement "Engrossing. . . . [Said has] an almost Proustian feel for smells, sounds, sights, and telling anecdotes." –
The New York Review of Books "If autobiography is above all a means of explaining one's self to oneself, then
Out of Place . . . must be seen as a triumph." –
The Boston Globe