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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
by Dumas, Firoozeh
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 13
- 9781400060405
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New York, NY: Villard Books, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed 'To Betsy-thank you for coming back! Enjoy' by author on the title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Dust jacket has mild edgewear, sun-fading to the spine, and a small closed tear. Book has heavy shelfwear to the base of and mild softening to the cap of the spine. A memoir by the Spirit of America Award-winning author of 'Laughing without an Accent: Adventures of a Global Citizen' and 'It Ain't so Awful, Falafel'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
Synopsis
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. In a series of deftly drawn scenes, we watch the family grapple with American English (hot dogs and hush puppies?--a complete mystery), American traditions (Thanksgiving turkey?--an even greater mystery, since it tastes like nothing), and American culture (Firoozeh's parents laugh uproariously at Bob Hope on television, although they don't get the jokes even when she translates them into Farsi).Above all, this is an unforgettable story of identity, discovery, and the power of family love. It is a book that will leave us all laughing--without an accent.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Title
- Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
- Author
- Dumas, Firoozeh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
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- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1400060400
- ISBN 13
- 9781400060405
- Publisher
- Villard Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2003
- Pages
- 208
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