Funny in Farsi :
Dumas, Firoozeh.
Funny in Farsi : a memoir of growing up Iranian in America / Firoozeh Dumas. - New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, [2008]. - viii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
"Reader's circle" -- Page 1 of cover. This work was originally published in hardcover in slightly different form by Villard Books in 2003. Includes a preview of Firoozeh Dumas' new book Laughing without an accent (pages [215]-227)
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.
9780812968378 (pbk.) 0812968379 (pbk.)
Dumas, Firoozeh.
Dumas, Firoozeh--Family.
Iranian American women--Biography.
Iranian Americans--Biography.
Immigrants--United States--Biography.
Ābādān (Iran)--Biography.
Whittier (Calif.)--Biography.
United States--Social life and customs--1971-
E184.I5 / D86 2008
979.4/90049155/0092
Funny in Farsi : a memoir of growing up Iranian in America / Firoozeh Dumas. - New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, [2008]. - viii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
"Reader's circle" -- Page 1 of cover. This work was originally published in hardcover in slightly different form by Villard Books in 2003. Includes a preview of Firoozeh Dumas' new book Laughing without an accent (pages [215]-227)
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.
9780812968378 (pbk.) 0812968379 (pbk.)
Dumas, Firoozeh.
Dumas, Firoozeh--Family.
Iranian American women--Biography.
Iranian Americans--Biography.
Immigrants--United States--Biography.
Ābādān (Iran)--Biography.
Whittier (Calif.)--Biography.
United States--Social life and customs--1971-
E184.I5 / D86 2008
979.4/90049155/0092