Funny in Farsi
Subtitle: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: January 13, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780812968378
Subjects: Personal Memoirs; Iranian American women; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Women; United States; Iranian Americans; Ethnic Cultures - General; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography; Immigrants
First sentence: When I was seven, my parents, my fourteen-year-old brother, Farshid, and I moved from Abadan, Iran, to Whittier, California.
Table of contents: title: 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 Noelle -- 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.