The pilot was not picked up for a series and was never aired. When she was seven, her parents, Kazem and Nazireh, and her brothers and she all moved to Whittier, California in search of a better life. In 2009, a pilot episode was filmed for ABC for a sitcom based on the book, also called Funny in Farsi, and directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. Funny In Farsi is the story of Firoozeh, a little girl who moved from Iran to America, as told through her eyes. In 2008, Dumas followed up Funny in Farsi with a second memoir, Laughing Without an Accent.įunny in Farsi was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award in 2004, a finalist for an Audie Award for best audiobook in 2005, and a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2005. In 2012, the book's Iranian translator, Mohammed Soleimani Nia, was arrested by Iranian authorities, although this may have been unrelated to the book. The book was translated into Persian language and became a bestseller in Iran in 2005, selling over 100,000 copies. It was Dumas's first book.įunny in Farsi was on the bestseller lists of the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times. The book describes adjusting to the different culture and dealing with her extended family, most of whom also moved to the U.S. The book describes Dumas's move with her family in 1972, at age seven, from Iran to Whittier, California, and her life in the United States for the next several decades (with a brief return to Iran). Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America is a 2003 memoir by Iranian American author Firoozeh Dumas.
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