I just finished reading Funny in Farsi: An Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas, a wonderfully clever collection of essays! Ms. Dumas came to America in 1972 with her Iranian family and her essays are a vibrant reflection of life as an outsider in a country of outsiders. She reminds me a lot of David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell. She has a laugh-out-loud essay on her family's visit to Disneyland; her father's dream of winning the jackpot on TV's Bowling for Dollars; and life as her mother's translator and interpreter. --K
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