Laleh Khadivi

Biography

Laleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan, Iran, and is the author of The Age of Orphans, the first book in a trilogy that follows three generations of Kurdish men as they leave southwestern Iran and immigrate to Los Angeles. She is the recipient of the 2008 Whiting Award, a Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowhip, and a finalist for the 2010 Rolex Mentor-Protégé Award. Khadivi has directed and produced documentary films for A&E, Showtime, and HBO. She is now at work on her second novel, The Walking.

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See Work

FICTION / Winter 2009

Air and Water

By Laleh Khadivi

The day care is run out of an old boxing gym where corrugated tin ceilings spread like sky and the glossed cement floors are always cold to the touch. Tucked into a northern corner of Long Beach, far past the beach and not so far past the...