'Naheed Patel paints a delicate and ironic portrait of small-town India as seen through the rueful and self-ironizing eyes of a young Parsi who will not make a grab for the brass ring.'

- Jerry Pinto, author of Em and the Big Hoom and The Loves of Yuri

'Patel's sharp, glittering prose powerfully reveals the raw underbelly of a damaged family in this terrific debut.'

- Mahesh Rao, author of Polite Society

'A Mirror Made of Rain is luminous - a blistering and unflinching commentary on family, love, pain, addiction and destruction. We are lucky to have Naheed Patel writing.'

- Diksha Basu, author of Destination Wedding

'A personal, empathetic view on mothers who society has deemed 'failures'" ? NPR Book of the Day

'The writing is sharp, beautiful, very evocative. The characters pop off the page and are instantly recognizable. Noomi is so achingly human and alive. I love the subtlety of Patel's hand in the way she depicts Noomi and her world in Mirror Made of Rain. Everything feels so lush and gorgeous as the story at the heart of the novel emerges and eventually coheres to devastating effect.' ?Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life and Filthy Animals

"A piercing, glittering reflection on familial trauma and addiction, Patel's writing is sharp as the shards of a smashed mirror." -Doireann Ní Ghríofa, author of A Ghost in the Throat

Naheed Phiroze Patel received her MFA in fiction from Columbia University's School of the Arts. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, HuffPost, The Rumpus, Scroll.in, New England Review, BOMB Magazine, EuropeNow Journal, PEN America, and elsewhere. She lives in the greater New York City area and works as a freelance essayist, interviewer and critic.