“A Tehran So Quiet and Other Stories presents an admirable variety of themes across interconnected tales that expose the misunderstandings between families as well as the gulfs between cultures and between different cities in a diasporic Iranian context.” Mark Anthony Jarman, University of New Brunswick

“A Tehran So Quiet and Other Stories brims with radiance and melody, showing the care, compassion, and acuity that Mehdi M. Kashani brings to crafting each delightful character and their pursuit of desire, intimacy, love, acceptance, healing, or autonomy in this debut short story collection. Stories about Iranian life and culture have never been told with such grace and complexity.” Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, author of there’s more

“A Tehran So Quiet should be required reading: solace for this loud, modern world. It’s hard not to fall in love with the flawed, troubled, and bumbling characters who are doing their best to belong to a new country, a new family, or a life that did not turn out the way they had hoped. Kashani is a writer to watch.” Maria Kuznetsova, author of Something Unbelievable