Laleh Khadivi Female Life on Planet Earth review and information of the novel by the Iranian American writer. Oneword will publish the new Laleh Khadivi novel on September 24, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.
Laleh Khadivi Female Life on Planet Earth reviews and information
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- “A novel about love, secrets, and the unknown depths of the people we love, Female Life on Planet Earth is intoxicating. Khadivi writes with bristling intelligence and real beauty.” (Katie Kitamura)
- “As hilarious as it is profoundly moving, Laleh Khadivi’s multitudinous Female Life on Planet Earth is so very wise about love and its intimate attendant, sorrow. Powerful, startling, and marvelously vibrant.” (R.O. Kwon)
- “Female Life on Planet Earth is a spellbinding fever dream. A wholly engrossing deep dive into womanhood and loss. A must-read revelation of a book.” (Jonathan Escoffery)
Female Life on Planet Earth
- Author: Laleh Khadivi (United States)
- Book type: novel
- Publisher: Oneworld
- To be released: September 24, 2026
- Length: 432 pages
- Format: hardback / ebook
- Prize: £ 16.99 / £ 10.99
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Blurb of the Laleh Kahadivi novel
After a lifetime together, Heti thought she knew her mother inside out. She’s about to discover how wrong she was.
Heti moves in a daze of grief after her mother dies, until her life is upended by the arrival of an unmarked package containing photographs of her mother as a young woman in Iran, enveloped head to toe in a black veil, pointing a machine gun at a group of sobbing young women.
Unable to confront the one person she most wants answers from, she turns to the women around her, listening to their surprising, funny and often contradictory stories. Through them, she realises that every woman contains hidden lives and private truths.
So when it falls to her to organise a memorial marking the first anniversary of her mother’s death, Heti gathers the women who knew her best and asks them: Who was my mother? And who are we?
Original, sparkling with wit and layered with tenderness, Female Life on Planet Earth is a celebration of womanhood.
Leleh Khadivi was born in 1977 to a Kurdish family in Esfahan, Iran. Shortly after the Iranian Revolution, she emigrated to the United States with her family in 1979, settling in the San Francisco Bay Area. She resides in San Francisco, California, where she is a professor in the Writing department at University of San Francisco. Her debut novel, The Age of Orphans, has been translated into Dutch (In de naam van de Sjah), Hebrew, and Italian.