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Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America is a 2003 memoir by Iranian American author Firoozeh Dumas. The book describes Dumas's move with her family in 1972, at age seven, from Iran to Whittier, California, and her life in the Read More..

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Description	Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America is a 2003 memoir by Iranian American author Firoozeh Dumas. The book describes Dumas's move with her family in 1972, at age seven, from Iran to Whittier, California, and her life in the United States for the next several decades (with a brief return to Iran). The book describes adjusting to the different culture and dealing with her extended family, most of whom also moved to the U.S. in the 1970s. It was Dumas's first book.Funny in Farsi was on the bestseller lists of the San Francisco Chronicle , the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.">">The book also became a bestseller in Iran in 2005, selling over 100,000 copies. In 2012, the book's Iranian translator, Mohammed Soleimani Nia, was arrested by Iranian authorities, although this may have been unrelated to the book.In 2008, Dumas followed up Funny in Farsi with a second memoir, Laughing Without an Accent.
Description	Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America is a 2003 memoir by Iranian American author Firoozeh Dumas. The book describes Dumas's move with her family in 1972, at age seven, from Iran to Whittier, California, and her life in the United States for the next several decades (with a brief return to Iran). The book describes adjusting to the different culture and dealing with her extended family, most of whom also moved to the U.S. in the 1970s. It was Dumas's first book.Funny in Farsi was on the bestseller lists of the San Francisco Chronicle , the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.">">The book also became a bestseller in Iran in 2005, selling over 100,000 copies. In 2012, the book's Iranian translator, Mohammed Soleimani Nia, was arrested by Iranian authorities, although this may have been unrelated to the book.In 2008, Dumas followed up Funny in Farsi with a second memoir, Laughing Without an Accent.

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Name	Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
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Authors	Firoozeh Dumas
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Genre	Memoir
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Language	English
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Country	United States
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