Join award-winning author Laleh Khadivi as she discusses her new book Female Life on Planet Earth.

Join award-winning author Laleh Khadivi as she discusses her new book Female Life on Planet Earth. Original, sparkling with wit and layered with tenderness, Khadivi’s novel explores familial love and celebrates womanhood. Perfect for fans of The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji.

Praise for Female Life on Planet Earth:

'A spellbinding fever dream. A wholly engrossing deep dive into womanhood and loss. A must-read revelation of a book.' JONATHAN ESCOFFERY, author of If I Survive You

'A novel about love, secrets and the unknown depths of the people we love,Female Life on Planet Earthis intoxicating. Khadivi writes with bristling intelligence and real beauty.' KATIE KITAMURA, author ofAudition

'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 marvellously vibrant.' R. O. KWON, author of Exhibit

About the author:

Laleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan, Iran, in 1977. In the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution her family fled, finally settling in Canada and then the United States. Khadivi received her MFA from Mills College and was a Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction at Emory University. In 2008 she received The Whiting Writers' Award. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, the New York Times, among others. Her new novel, Female Life on Planet Earth (Ecco Harper Collins) and its sister community film project, Female Lives on Planet Earth, debut September 2026.

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