"Captivating...Seraji deftly interweaves the political and the romantic, tracing Iran's troubled history and the roots of Iranian distrust of the United States..."

"A haunting coming-of-age tale and a complex Persian love story."

"….. Seraji's wonderfully appealing characters, living universal teenage emotional lives of dreams and minor worries, lose their innocence in the brutalities that foreshadow the Iranian revolution."

"Rooftops of Tehran" calls on America to open its eyes and ears to Iran: its people, its pain, its beauty, its love. Hopefully, America will listen."

“With Rooftops of Tehran, Seraji well may have written the next toast of book clubs everywhere.”

"Rooftops of Tehran combines a coming of age love story with a compelling tale of struggle against dictatorship. You learn a lot about Iranian culture while coming to understand characters with universal appeal. This would make a great movie. Unfortunately, Iranian directorswouldn't be allowed to film it and American directors would move the story to New Jersey."

Reese Erlich
The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of US Policy and the Middle East Crisis

“Beyond being a bittersweet love story, Rooftops of Tehran is a story of community.  No reader will be unfamiliar to the situation of the alley -- the neighborhood -- where these characters are united and bound together by history, ritual, grief, respect, and by the bond of protection that arises under the brutality of an oppressive government. Rooftops of Tehran takes an uncommon and refreshing view of Iran in modern American fiction…and also reveals how an American immigrant is born out of a young foreigner's desperation for self-determination and social freedom.”

Susanne Pari
The Fortune Catcher, and Program Director, Book Group Expo

“A stirring story about the loss of innocence, Rooftops of Tehran reveals a side of Iran understood by few Westerners. An ambitious first novel—full of humor, originality, and meaning.”

John Shors
Beneath a Marble Sky