The Quince Seed Potion: A Novel

...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

...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

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

[An] epic first novel....Absorbing....[A] haunting story.--Richard Labonte "Q Syndicate"

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

A vigorous, raunchy tale spanning fifty turbulent years of Iranian history.--Gelareh Asayesh, author of Saffron Sky

A vivid portrait.-- "Kirkus Reviews"

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"

Engrossing, elegantly told story....A humanizing perspective on a history too many Americans know only through authoritarian stereotypes.--Whitney Scott "Booklist"

Interesting and [a] very different novel of modern Persia.--Jana Kraus "Mostlyfiction.Com"

The narrative progresses at a fast pace as the essence of the exotic setting unfolds.--Robert Ross, Boston College "Dallas Voice"

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