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Funny in Farsi : a memoir of growing up Iranian in America / Firoozeh Dumas.

By: Dumas, Firoozeh.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004Description: viii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0812968379; 9780812968378.Subject(s): Dumas, Firoozeh | Dumas, Firoozeh -- Family | Iranian American women -- Biography | Iranian Americans -- Biography | Immigrants -- United States -- Biography | Ābādān (Iran) -- Biography | Whittier (Calif.) -- Biography | United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971-DDC classification: 979.4/90049155/0092
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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979.49 2003 (Browse shelf) Available

"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.

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