Maryam Keshavarz's uneven family dramedy is a voiceover-heavy, lopsided story of an Iranian immigrant family. Our The Persian Version review:
is happy to give you the audiobook version of its culture and country-spanning multigenerational experience. Not content to let us simply watch its oddly framed narrative, its incessant narration buries its anecdotes in snark.
Leila and her colorful family are going through a lot. Dad is getting a heart transplant, a boy band’s worth of stereotyped brothers watch on, and supermom Shireen is doing it all, including looking down on queer Leila’s romantic life. The latter most recently involves getting knocked up by the straight Brit currently playing Hedwig on Broadway. But, as you might expect, the two women have a bit more in common than meets the eye.
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