A Good Country - Softcover

Powerful, poignant, excellent (Independent)

Important (Guardian)

Stunning (New York Times)

With insightful, often moving prose, dialogue so exact it echoes from the page, and a stunning balance between compassion and merciless (often damning) realism, Khadivi begins to unravel one of the miseries of the modern political era, which isn't about politics at all but is entirely contained within the flawed and insatiable human heart (Dina Nayeri New York Times)

The narrative is tense and dramatic . An expertly crafted coming-of-age story about radicalisation and cultural integration (Abdulrazak Gurnah Guardian)

What would it take for a studious American teenager - the son of hard-working Iranian immigrants, addicted to surfing, his friends, his stoner way of life and girls - to forsake all of that and become a radicalised Muslim? The question is explored brilliantly in Laleh Khadivi's third novel . The unerring precision of her prose draws you, piece by piece, into Rez's orbit and makes you concerned for his welfare once the skies darken (Herald)

Khadivi is a massive talent, lyrical, evocative, and unsparing . . . Khadivi's feat is a crucial one, especially at this moment in time, when young Muslim men are dehumanized by white Americans far more often than they are understood to be complicated, and individual, human beings .You won't want the book to end (Kirkus Reviews Starred Review)

Engrossing . . . Khadivi's carefully crafted, masterful novel illustrates how the perfect storm of teenage cruelty, racism, and tragedy can create an extremist (Booklist Starred Review)

Brilliantly channeling the minds of angst-filled teenagers with barely formed worldviews who seesaw between brash self-confidence and deflating insecurities . . . Khadivi has written an important, smart, timely novel that rivals such standouts as Karan Mahajan's The Association of Small Bombs or Moshin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Library Journal Starred Review)