Female Life on Planet Earth
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- ISBN 9781836432821
- Dimensions: 146 x 225mm
- Publication Date: 24 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Oneworld Publications
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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'A future classic' SETH INSUA
'A rare gem' ONYI NWABINELI
After a lifetime together, Heti thought she knew her mother inside out. She's about to discover how wrong she was.
Heti thought she knew her mother – a loving mum and grandmother, and a tough immigrant with an excellent sales record at Diamonds-R-Us. That is, until the arrival of a mysterious photo showing her mother as a young woman in Iran – draped head to toe in black robes, pointing a machine gun at a group of sobbing young women.
Still reeling from her mother's recent death, this shocking revelation about a woman she clearly never knew brings with it staggering questions. So when it falls to her to organize a memorial to mark the one-year anniversary of her mother's death, Heti calls together the women who knew her best and asks them: Who can a woman really be? And who are we?
With sparkling wit and emotional precision, Female Life on Planet Earth is the stunning new novel from award-winning author Laleh Khadivi.
Laleh Khadivi is the author of three novels, The Age of Orphans, The Walking and A Good Country, otherwise known as the Kurdish Trilogy. She is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, NEA grant for the arts and the Stanford Stein fellowship. She lives in Oakland, California and is chair of the University of San Francisco MFA program in writing.
