Funny in Persian: Iranian memoirs grew up in order, author: Firoozeh Dumas

Funny in Persian, humorous and deep memoirs about a life filled with love for family, homeland, and heritage, this book is a charming story of a writer who loves her people and focuses on pointing out the absurd aspects of both American and Iranian cultures, which in itself is an amazing success. Forouzeh Domas narrates in short prose texts, imbued with a sincere humorous sense, her journey of moving from "Abadan" in Iran to the state of "California" in America when she was seven years old, due to her father being assigned by the Iranian National Oil Company to work as an advisor for an American company for two years, and it extended to permanent residence after the Islamists came to power in the country. On the first page of the 209-page book, Forouzeh Domas, the dedicatee of the book, wrote: "To my father Kazem who loves storytelling... and to my mother Nazira," the stories will allow us to understand the reason for dedicating her this more than wonderful memoir, because Forouzeh Domas's father will be present in most of the narrated stories, constantly driving her with his humorous actions, and recounting the same story more than once, which we will learn from the author's talk, who interacted with her as if she was hearing it for the first time. In the book "Funny in Persian," Forouzeh Domas adopts the persona of a storyteller to express her feelings upon arriving in the United States, and her first day going to school with her mother, reflecting the feelings of Middle Eastern children in their new Western environment. The book presents images that can be compared to what migrants experience today in terms of the difficulty of integration into new communities. Number of pages: 212