Funny in Farsi, by Firoozeh Dumas
From Random House: 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. Above all, this is an unforgettable story of identity, discovery, and the power of family love. It is a book that will leave us all laughing—without an accent.
2 comments:
So sorry I missed book group! I can't wait to see some comments... I am just getting the book today from our library. It took weeks for a copy to become available, but I still plan to read it. Let me know what you all thought!
I loved the way this book had cultural lessons that were so "real life". They really were funny--almost like a little lilt at the end of each chapter. Maybe when "skies are grey" we should all take a moment to remember the funny things that happened in our lives and things would look up.
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