When she was seven years old, author Firoozeh Dumas moved with her family from Iran to Southern California arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father’s glowing memories of graduate school here. Her book, Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (Random House), is a lighthearted account of the antics of her extended family’s trials and tribulations as Iranian immigrants living in the land of hot dogs and hushpuppies.
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