“What a fine and reliable guide Marilyn Yalom is — not only for where we've been, but for where we're going. The collaboration with her son, Reid S. Yalom — this mix of art and scholarship, history and vision, study and focus — makes The American Resting Place the record of a special pilgrimage and a document for the ages.”

“The American Resting Place made me want to simultaneously stay inside reading all afternoon and get in my car and drive to the closest cemetery to look for death's heads and soul effigies. Like the burying places she profiles, Marilyn Yalom's  book is a one-of-a-kind richness of  history, insight, humor, and dignity. I could wander around in it for days.”