Funny in Farsi : a memoir of growing up Iranian in America

Author

Firoozeh Dumas

Call Number

• 921 D8864 (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, c2006.

Physical Description

viii, 214 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Notes

"Reader's circle"-Cover.

This work was originally published in hardcover in slightly different form by Villard Books in 2003.

Contents

• 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 Noëlle
• 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
• Afterword : Kazem and Nazireh Jazayeri.