"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