Engrossing, elegantly told story....A humanizing perspective on a history too many Americans know only through authoritarian stereotypes.
Whitney Scott
Booklist, (American Library Association)
A vivid portrait.
Kirkus
[An] epic first novel....Absorbing....[A] haunting story.
Richard Labonte
Q Syndicate, (Content For Gay Publications)
The narrative progresses at a fast pace as the essence of the exotic setting unfolds.
Robert Ross, Boston College
Dallas Voice
An epic that not only traces the story of a doomed pair but also follows the tumultuous history of Iran from 1928 to 1981.
Persian Journal
Interesting and [a] very different novel of modern Persia.
Jana Kraus
Mostlyfiction.Com
The Quince Seed Potion is a daring and unique novel...[it] is a book important for our times, a tale that will remind us that tradition is not so easily expunged by modern logic.
Susanne Pari, author of The Fortune Catcher A vigorous, raunchy tale spanning fifty turbulent years of Iranian history.
Gelareh Asayesh, author of Saffron Sky ...a raw and beguiling epic that offers up an intimate view of a world still unknown to most.
Jewelle Gomez, author of The Gilda Stories A deeply affecting novel...And Mort Baharloo, in writing his story, definitely shows that he knows more than most of us.
Jose Edmundo Paz Soldan, author of The Matter of Desire ...powerfully captures the dilemma of being caught between one's individual desire and that of tradition...an honest, unsparing, poignant account of a world at once cruel and beautiful.
Nahid Rachlin, author of Foreigner and The Heart's Desire This is a novel that is simultaneously exotic and familiar, exotic in terms of locale and people but familiar in terms of the trials and tribulations of human everywhere.
M.K. Ghanoonparvar, Professor and author ...a fascinating tale of loyalty and servitude...told in a lush and descriptive language and in a naturalistic style.
Farnoosh Moshiri-Rossi, author of The Bathhouse