Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (Unabridged)
-
-
3.9 • 26 Ratings
-
-
- $14.99
Publisher Description
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.
In a series of deftly drawn scenes Funny in Farsi chronicles the American journey of Dumas' wonderfully engaging family: her engineer father, a sweetly quixotic dreamer who first sought riches on Bowling for Dollars and in Las Vegas; 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.
An unforgettable story of identity, discovery, and the power of family love, Funny in Farsi will leave us all laughing without an accent.
Customer Reviews
See AllBad Recording
The story is great but be forwarned - this recording is not very well done... if you plan to listen to it on your iPod plan to hear every swallow and every lip smack of the author as she reads it... it is actually kind of gross and is sort of taking away from my enjoyment of the story.
Funny in Farsi
This is a good book, IF YOU ARE IN THE 7th GRADE! Should've been labeled as juvenile nonfiction.
An Absolute Pleasure!
When I downloaded Funny in Farsi, my plan was to only listen to it during my commute. But I was hooked right from the start, and finished listening to it within a matter of hours. It was also one of the rare books that has made me laugh out loud.
Firoozeh's hilarious and heartwarming anecdotes give the reader/listener a wonderful insight into Iranian culture and the immigrant experience. But more importantly, her stories prove that most family dynamics are universal.
Hearing Firoozeh's upbeat voice is a special bonus. Nobody could possibly tell her stories better!
Even though it's been several months since I read Funny in Farsi, I'm still thinking about Firoozeh's wonderful stories and am eagerly awaiting her next book.