Laleh Khadivi explores Female Life on Planet Earth

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Sep 29, 202627:40Society & Culture

Iranian-American author Laleh Khadivi’s latest novel, Female Life on Planet Earth, centres on a mid-life woman, Heti, who comes up against some new information about her recently dead mum that questions everything she th...

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