Funny in Farsi : a memoir of growing up Iranian in America / Firoozeh Dumas.
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TextPublication details: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004.Description: viii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0812968379
- 9780812968378
- Dumas, Firoozeh
- Iranian American women -- Biography
- Iranian Americans -- Biography
- Immigrants -- United States -- Biography
- Dumas, Firoozeh -- Family
- Ābādān (Iran) -- Biography
- Whittier (Calif.) -- Biography
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971-
- Dumas, Firoozeh
- Families
- Immigrants
- Iranian American women
- Iranian Americans
- Manners and customs
- California -- Whittier
- Iran -- Ābādān
- United States
- Since 1971
- 979.4/90049155/0092
- E184.I5 D86 2004
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"With a new final chapter"--Cover.
This work was originally published in hardcover in slightly different form by Villard Books in 2003.
Leffingwell Elementary School -- Hot dogs and wild geese -- In the gutter -- Save me, Mickey -- Swoosh-swoosh -- With a little help from my friends -- Bernice -- A dozen key chains -- You can call me Al -- Of mosquitoes and men -- The "F word" -- Waterloo -- America, land of the free -- The Ham amendment -- Treasure Island -- It's all relatives -- Me and Bob Hope -- I ran and I ran and I ran -- I-raynians need not apply -- Girls just wanna have funds -- Joyeuse Noëlle -- The wedding -- I feel the earth move under my feet -- A nose by any other name -- Judges paid off -- If I were a rich man -- Afterword : Kazem and Nazireh Jazayeri.
An autobiography of growing up as an Iranian-American describes the author's family's 1971 move from Iran to Southern California, the members of her diverse family, and their struggle with culture shock.