ABC is teaming with Reese Witherspoon to tell the story of an undocumented Iranian family.

The Disney-owned broadcast network has handed out a script commitment to the half-hour comedy Americanized, from Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine banner and ABC Studios. The project is based on author Sara Saedi's memoir of the same name.

Americanized tells the story of a loving and offbeat Iranian family who has been living with a huge secret: They’re undocumented immigrants. Told through an irreverent, heartfelt and apolitical lens, the series will give viewers a window into the life of a Middle Eastern household while exploring the universal truths that bond every type of "American" family.

Saedi (iZombie, The Goodwin Games) will pen the script and executive produce the project for ABC Studios, alongside Hello Sunshine's Witherspoon and Lauren Levy Neustadter.

About Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card

The hilarious, poignant, and true story of one teen’s experience growing up in America as an undocumented immigrant from the Middle East, perfect for fans of Mindy Kaling and Trevor Noah’s books.

“Very funny but never flippant, Saedi mixes ‘90s pop culture references, adolescent angst and Iranian history into an intimate, informative narrative that thoroughly defies current divisive view on immigration.”—The New York Times

At thirteen, bright-eyed, straight-A student Sara Saedi uncovered a terrible family secret: she was breaking the law simply by living in the United States. Only two years old when her parents fled Iran, she didn’t learn of her undocumented status until her older sister wanted to apply for an after-school job, but couldn’t because she didn’t have a Social Security number.

Fear of deportation kept Sara up at night, but it didn’t keep her from being a teenager. She desperately wanted a green card, along with clear skin, her own car, and a boyfriend.

Americanized follows Sara’s progress toward getting her green card, but that’s only a portion of her experiences as an Iranian-“American” teenager. From discovering that her parents secretly divorced to facilitate her mother’s green card application to learning how to tame her unibrow, Sara pivots gracefully from the terrifying prospect that she might be kicked out of the country at any time to the almost-as-terrifying possibility that she might be the only one of her friends without a date to the prom. This moving, often hilarious story is for anyone who has ever shared either fear.