"Monster Child is a brief, intense attack of a novel capable of leaving one breathless and uncomfortably provoked - and this isn't a bad thing. Discomfort challenges you. It can change you."

"This is the most powerful and emotional book I have ever read in my life."

"In Monster Child, Nayebzadah has struck a careful balance between bloodletting and bloodbath. With vividly drawn characters, richly explored culture and precise renderings of the spaces these characters inhabit - both internal and external - Monster Child breathes."

"[Monster Child] packs a big narrative wallop. To some extent it is a novel about the Afghan immigrant experience in Canada."

"It is a book that examines bonds of blood and dares readers to ask which is the greater foe -- the monsters in the world around us, or the monsters lurking within."