Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
by Firoozeh Dumas | Biographies & Memoirs | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0307430995 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0307430995 Global Overview for this book
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Picked up from Little Free Library #28810 in Union Hall, VA.
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In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and the clan has been here ever since. Funny in Farsi chronicles the American journey of Dumas's wonderfully engaging family: her engineer father, a sweetly quixotic dreamer who first sought riches on Bowling for Dollars and in Las Vegas, and later lost his job during the Iranian revolution; her elegant mother, who never fully mastered English (nor cared to); her uncle, who combated the effects of American fast food with an army of miraculous American weight-loss gadgets; and Firoozeh herself, who as a girl changed her name to Julie, and who encountered a second wave of culture shock when she met and married a Frenchman, becoming part of a one-couple melting pot.
Description:
In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and the clan has been here ever since. Funny in Farsi chronicles the American journey of Dumas's wonderfully engaging family: her engineer father, a sweetly quixotic dreamer who first sought riches on Bowling for Dollars and in Las Vegas, and later lost his job during the Iranian revolution; her elegant mother, who never fully mastered English (nor cared to); her uncle, who combated the effects of American fast food with an army of miraculous American weight-loss gadgets; and Firoozeh herself, who as a girl changed her name to Julie, and who encountered a second wave of culture shock when she met and married a Frenchman, becoming part of a one-couple melting pot.
Journal Entry 2 by Spatial at Feminism / Girl Power Bookbox, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Monday, July 19, 2021
Released 2 yrs ago (7/19/2021 UTC) at Feminism / Girl Power Bookbox, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases
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Added to the Feminism / Girl Power Book Box #2!
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Journal Entry 4 by emmejo at Kleen Korner laundromat in Cortland, New York USA on Friday, September 9, 2022
Released 1 yr ago (9/9/2022 UTC) at Kleen Korner laundromat in Cortland, New York USA
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Added to the shelf with books and magazines. It was nearly all romances, so hopefully this will add variety for someone else. I was re-reading while waiting for my laundry, and found the style of short, interconnected anecdotes perfect for that!
I read this all the way through a while ago, but then have pulled it out to read a chapter or two here and there since then. The humor and quick, vivid descriptions make it a lot of fun.
I read this all the way through a while ago, but then have pulled it out to read a chapter or two here and there since then. The humor and quick, vivid descriptions make it a lot of fun.