"Captures The Heart....and among other things introduces it to wonderful parables of love, truth and beauty" - SONIA SANCHEZ, National Academy of Arts Fellow/Poet Laureate of Philadelphia/ Poet in Residence Temple University. "Dr Mannan creates worlds that expands a sense of who we are as humans and ponders the unique strange and wonderful dimensions of ourselves" - LEE MASON, WABC Radio. "Mannan's NOD is an imaginative "Alice in Wonderland" on steroids. full of nutty kings, royal frogs, talking trees, wicked walls who swallow people, and damsels who save the world" - JASON WHITAKER, Urban Literature Review.