--Longlisted for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award "Lyrical, shrewd, and daring novelist Nahai . . . writes with acute emotional and nearly anthropological perception, laser-wit, and deep compassion. . . . With touches of magic realism, extraordinary characters, and a spiraling,...
--Finalist for the Jewish Book Council's 2014 JJ Greenberg Memorial Award
--One of The Margins's 100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers