Female Life on Planet Earth by Laleh Khadivi review – a mother’s secret past in the Iranian revolution

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The Guardian reviews Laleh Khadivi's latest novel, Female Life on Planet Earth, which tells the story of Heti, an Iranian-American accountant living in Los Angeles whose mother has recently died. After receiving startling photographs from an unknown sender showing a younger woman resembling her mother in a black veil with a machine gun pointing at handcuffed women, Heti is forced to confront her mother's secret past during the Iranian revolution. Reviewer Shahidha Bari notes that the novel weaves serious, sardonic, and analytical tones to explore the complex dynamics between mothers and daughters, inheritance, and identity.