"Much more than another well-told life story. A profound reflection on the immigrant journey, To See and See Again is also a veiled and subtle--and in those ways highly Persian--defense of a place and a people that Americans have vilified for so long. . . . Ms. Bahrampour has taken the reader along with her on a journey worthy of Scheherezade, to the private quarters where a henna artist paints love poems on the bride's thigh for the groom to read on the wedding night; to turquoise mosques, desert forts, steamy coffee houses and, most vividly of all, into the warm and hidden places of the heart."—Geraldine Brooks, Wall Street Journal

"Bahrampour has written a fascinating, often moving account of her life on the boundary between two very different cultures."—Adrienne Edgar, New York Times Book Review

"A memoir becomes rich indeed when it not only leads us through a life but also enhances our understanding of the cultural, political, and social character of the world influencing that life. To our benefit, To See and See Again does this with elegance."—Susanne Pari, San Francisco Chronicle

"Both entertaining and deeply emotional."—Rana Dogar, Newsweek

"Sometimes painful, sometimes soothing in its honesty about a family uprooted."—the Portland Oregonian