For years I have admired the elegant fiction of Richard Stern for its impeccable language, its gracious erudition, and, above all, it's brilliant wit. In Other Men's Daughters, to me his most moving novel, these qualities serve the cause of mercy. - Thomas Berger; ""[O]ne of the most valid contenders for the Great American Novel of the decade.... A beautifully written novel that should be read by everyone who cares about the human condition."" - Philadelphia Inquirer; ""Stern has constructed as moving, attractive, instructive novel about the ending of a marriage and a man's need for intimacy as anyone has written.... This year is unlikely to produce a high form of fictive entertainment and enlightenment than Other Men's Daughters. - Kansas City Star; ""It is a pleasure to find a novel written with such intelligence and feeling, a novel that judges none of its people but holds them up to calm and affectionate scrutiny. Other Men's Daughters touches very directly on contemporary existence but its real subject is the disruptions and exaltations of the human heart."" - Washington Post