"With meticulous and pensive care, Ghazal Mosadeq takes the ethical temperature of the world around her, creating in the process, an almost tangible atmosphere—we can feel the breeze through the open window, smell her days full of rain. Always attentive to the subtlest levels of human interaction, Mosadeq shows a responsibility to others that manages to be both exacting and generous. A gorgeous book unafraid to look at the difficulties inherent in being human and to honor them lovingly."

"The Book of Advice knows 'we didn’t have to break the flower stem / to let the / light pass through,' even as it knows we have already broken everything we could. Here, no one knows our names, nor the name of our horse, though someone did once ask. From the sliver between a face and its forgettable name, from the sliver between what’s been said and what’s yet to be said, slightly but exactly differently, Ghazal Mosadeq offers a chasm. The floor is deep, but, when you land, very tender. No one hails us, but the well wishes, oh, open your mouth for the well wishes."