Firoozeh Dumas

About the Author

Firoozeh Dumas was born in Iran but grew up mostly in California. She attended Berkeley and graduated with honors, and shortly afterwards married her husband, François Dumas. In 2001, she submitted a collection of stories about her early life, and much to her surprise, Random House published the stories under the title Funny in Farsi in 2003. Since 2003, Dumas has written another memoir of her childhood, Laughing Without an Accent (2008), and a middle school-level work of fiction, It’ Ain’t so Awful, Falafel (2016).

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Funny in Farsi

When she’s seven years old, Firoozeh, along with her father, Kazem, her mother, Nazireh, and her older brother, Farshid, move from Abadan, Iran to Whittier, California. Kazem is an intelligent eng... view guide