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