Zivari's A Bath House in the Garden Adolescence is an intriguing mix of exotic Persian poetry, seduction literature, and fairy tale. At moments riveting, then scary, then disturbing, this work starts as a story for children, and morphs into a surrealistic meditation on the seductiveness of evil. Reading A Bath House in the Garden of Adolescence is like sitting next to Scherherazade on one of the 1001 Nights. Judith Remy Leder, poet (Tiger Woman, Pluribelle Press 2012)