Turn Left offers an incredible perspective on immigrating to the U.S. from Iran and being caught between two cultures, guided by curiosity and an extreme desire to make the world a better place. Absolutely inspiring!

– Alan Eustace, former Senior VP at Google

With Iran being a US foe for about 45 years, it is easy to fail to think of the humanity of Iranians. This moving book about an Iranian immigrant to the US reminds the American reader of our shared humanity. Illah Nourbakhsh tells the touching story of a young Iranian boy who immigrated to the US, became a professor of robotics in one of the best computer-science departments in the world, decided to dedicate his career not only to the betterment of technology, but to the betterment of the world. It is a story that makes me hopeful not only about America but also about the Middle East.

– Moshe Vardi, University Professor, Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering at Rice University

Turn Left is a searching and powerful exploration of what it means to operate in the "in between" spaces of modern America and our changing world. In a memoir that is both deeply personal and accessibly universal, Illah Nourbakhsh describes what it is like to navigate these times as an immigrant, an Iranian-born American, and as a technologist battling the social disequilibrium that his own profession has helped cause.

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Not only is Illah Nourbakhsh's Left Turn a crisply written, witty and insightful tale of migration to the United States, it is simultaneously about the possibilities and limits of technology from someone who's curiosity has been as vast as his impact. If the relationship between immigration and technological innovation in America isn't already clear, then let this be the text that renders that relationship canonical.

– Louis Chude-Sokei, Professor of English, Director of African-American and Black Diaspora Studies, Boston University