Funny in Farsi : a memoir of growing up Iranian in America
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Published
New York : Villard, c2003.
Status
Green Hills - Adult Biography
B D8864d
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B D8864d
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Published
New York : Villard, c2003.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
x, 187 pages : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Reading Level
UG
Level 7.3, 9 Points
Level 7.3, 9 Points
Lexile measure
1030
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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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Dumas, F. (2003). Funny in Farsi: a memoir of growing up Iranian in America . Villard.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dumas, Firoozeh. 2003. Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America. Villard.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dumas, Firoozeh. Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America Villard, 2003.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Dumas, Firoozeh. Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America Villard, 2003.
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