ʻAṭr-i sunbol, ʻAṭr-i kāj
By: nivisandih Firuzāh Jazāyirī ; mutarjim Mohammad Sulaymāni nīyā.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Qiṣṣah
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Tihrān
Language: per
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9789645776624
Subjects: Dumas, Firoozeh.; Dumas, Firoozeh -- Family.; Iranian American women -- Biography.; Iranian Americans -- Biography.; Immigrants -- United States -- Biography.; Women -- Biography.; Ābādān (Iran) -- Biography.; Whittier (Calif.) -- Biography.; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971-
Genres: Biography.
Work titles: Funny in Farsi.
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.
Notes: Translation of: Funny in Farsi: a memoir of growing up Iranian American.