Reviews:

• "Anar Ali paints a loving and rich portrait of the Ismaili community in transition from East Africa to Canada. Her stories combine the realism of a Rohinton Mistry with the whimsy of a Barbara Gowdy: a baby grows wings and flies, a family flees Idi Amin's Uganda, a pearl diver discovers a secret world under the sea, an old woman deals with her son's lifelong coma in a Calgary hospital. A dazzling debut by a writer whose next book I can't wait to read."
  - Shyam Selvadurai
• "...promises to delight and enchant."
  - Flare Magazine
• "Ali relentlessly charts the ways in which the anger triggered by various forms of subjugation can be converted into almost unnoticed patterns of household tyranny...
  - Books in Canada
• "[She] never allows her stories to surrender the whiff of contingency that is the hallmark of any good tale. They unfold as the palimpsestic traces of worlds that are better evoked than summarised."
  - Books in Canada
• "...an often comic sense of celebration..."
  - Books in Canada
• "Ali's ability to mix shrewd insight with profound empathy enables her to register her characters' faults without the rush to easy judgment..."
  - Books in Canada