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050 4 _aE184.I5
_bD86 2008
082 4 _a979.4/90049155/0092
100 1 _aDumas, Firoozeh.
245 1 0 _aFunny in Farsi :
_ba memoir of growing up Iranian in America /
_cFiroozeh Dumas.
260 _aNew York :
_bRandom House Trade Paperbacks,
_c[2008].
300 _aviii, 227 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c21 cm.
500 _a"Reader's circle" -- Page 1 of cover.
500 _aThis work was originally published in hardcover in slightly different form by Villard Books in 2003.
500 _aIncludes a preview of Firoozeh Dumas' new book Laughing without an accent (pages [215]-227)
505 0 _aLeffingwell 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.
600 1 0 _aDumas, Firoozeh.
600 1 0 _aDumas, Firoozeh
_xFamily.
650 0 _aIranian American women
_vBiography.
650 0 _aIranian Americans
_vBiography.
650 0 _aImmigrants
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
651 0 _aĀbādān (Iran)
_vBiography.
651 0 _aWhittier (Calif.)
_vBiography.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xSocial life and customs
_y1971-
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_cBK
960 _a99961380348
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