Funny in Farsi : a memoir of growing up Iranian in America / Firoozeh Dumas.
By: Dumas, Firoozeh.
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BookPublisher: 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 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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បណ្ណាល័យសេដ្ឋកិច្ច ទូរសៀវភៅអង់គ្លេស | 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.
1030L Lexile
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.3 9 76686.
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