Monster Child

"Nayebzadah packs a complicated family history into this short novel, rife with trauma . . . from the beginning until the end."

"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."

Hollay Ghadery, The Miramichi Reader

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

Canadian Book Addict

"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."

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

The Ormsby Review

"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."

Anuja Varghese, Hamilton Review of Books