Female Life on Planet Earth A Novel

"Female Life On Planet Earth is an intense fever dream of vignettes and dialogue which considers inheritance, lineage and how we may never truly know those we love most, told as a journey through the cosmos of womanhood. We couldn't put this mesmerising novel down." - Service95, The Books In Our Back-To-School Bags This September

"Personally, I inhaled California writer Laleh Khadivi's forthcoming novel - written with deft, dazzling prose and packed with surprises - in one weekend. May I suggest you do the same?" - Los Angeles Times, Best Books Fall Preview

"I was immediately stunned by Khadivi's meditative writing in this book...It's a book as funny as it is reflective, a tale of grief, feminism, inheritance, and the pieces of our parents we'll never really know." - Samia Silba, Mizna

"At turns deeply moving, strange, funny-testimonies that capture the varieties of resilience required to be a woman." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"An indelible and unforgettable look at the complicated lives of women and what they must do to survive and thrive." - Booklist, starred review

"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, author of Audition

"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, national bestselling author of Exhibit

"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, author of If I Survive You

"Turbulent yet life-affirming and funny... Khadivi's expressionistic prose and sometimes shocking imagery make this multifaceted meditation sing. It's really difficult to deliver a complex blend of the personal and the political in fiction. Khadivi does it gorgeously." - BookPage, starred review