Funny in Farsi

a memoir of growing up Iranian in America

by Firoozeh Dumas

2003 187 pages eng ★ 3.3 (3 ratings)

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 F…