“As a Jew of the diaspora,…as a refugee from storied Alexandria, [Aciman] experienced language, place, family, education, sexuality, wealth and poverty, beauty and ugliness in complicated mixtures that have given his writing its poignancy and its versatility, not to mention flashes of wicked humor . . . [A] remarkable memoir.”

― Ingrid Rowland, American Scholar

“Aciman evokes the passing of time in rich, meandering prose, rebuilding 1960s Rome in sentences suffused with light and sound and memories . . . Roman Year is both an affecting coming-of-age story and a timely, distinctive description of the haunted lives of refugees.”

― Aminatta Forna, The New York Times

“Fans of André Aciman’s novel Call Me by Your Name will swoon for this vivid, heartfelt account of the time he spent as a teenager in Rome . . . A standout memoir from a master of emotional nuance who always reminds us to ‘look for the human.’”

― Jessica Olin, Oprah Daily