"Remarkable . . . A profound meditation on the first-order experiences of life: friendship, love, death, carrying on in the face of great tragedy. This is a book to help you remember what is meaningful in this life."–Alexis Madrigal, Forum (KQED-FM)
"Engaging and deeply thoughtful."–San Francisco Chronicle
"Moving . . . Anyone who has lost a loved one and still seeks their voice will appreciate this pensive book."–Booklist
"Other People's Words is an essential meditation on the relationship between love, loss, and language. How does speech undo the boundaries between you and me, between self and other? How do we create ourselves, and our intimacies, through our words? This book will fundamentally change how, and for whom, you speak."–Cyrus Dunham, author of A Year Without a Name
"It's rare to find a book like Other People's Words, which creates its own delicate atmosphere and populates it with such unforced care that every blade of grass, and every word, seems to glow with its own mysterious purpose, only to discover that you are yourself inside that little world, breathing its air, which is all around you, and that one of its mysterious purposes is you."–Jonathan Rosen, author of The Best Minds
"Lissa Soep has given us a gift with this book. It is a treasure map to meaning in life's hardest moments and the exact book on grief I desperately needed. She is a celebrator of life, and, in so doing, shows us that love lives on forever."–Laurel Braitman, author of What Looks Like Bravery: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
"A moving meditation on the role of language in mitigating grief and loss."–Amy Fusselman, author of Savage Park
"Other People's Words illustrates how absurd the illusion is that we are separate. We don't just whisper into each other's ears; rather we speak to, through, for, and as each other. This book grapples beautifully with that truth and is genuinely enlightening. Just magnificent."–Rob Delaney, author of the New York Times bestseller, A Heart That Works
"Other People's Words is one of those books that changes you forever. Now I can hear the 'double voicing' in my own life: the ways the language of my past–of dear friends and family–has fused into and shapes the language of my present; how it keeps people I have lost with me always."–Peggy Orenstein
