"Eleven-year-old Zomorod, originally from Iran, tells her story of growing up Iranian in Southern California during the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis of the late 1970s"--
Firoozeh Dumas Book order
Firoozeh Dumas is an author whose works often explore the intersection of cultures and the search for identity in new environments. Her writing is distinguished by a warm humor and insightful observations on how individuals navigate between different worlds and languages. Through engaging narratives, she delves into themes of family, immigration, and the quest for belonging. Dumas encourages readers to reflect on the complexities of human relationships and the meaning of finding one's place.
- 2017
- 2009
Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
The author continues the story of her Iranian-American family and their experiences at home and abroad, from dealing with her French husband's Christmas traditions to taking fifty-one Iranian family members on a cruise to Alaska
- 2004
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
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.