Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Where did the narrator move when she was seven?
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When Firoozeh Dumas was seven years old, she moved from Abadan, Iran, to Whittier, California, with her parents and fourteen-year-old brother, Farshid. Firoozeh's father, Kazem, had fallen in love with the kindness, freedom, and potential that America offered years before when he attended graduate school in Texas and California, where he earned advanced degrees in engineering.
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America