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This new Readers Circle edition includes a reading group guide and a conversation between Firoozeh Dumas and Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner .” In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge... read more
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First Sentence edit
When I was seven, my parents, my fourteen-year-old brother, Farshid, and I moved from Abadan, Iran, to Whittier, California.
Table of Contents edit
Acknowledgments
Leffingwell Elementary School
Hot Dogs and Wild Geese
In the Gutter
Save Me, Mickey
Swoosh-Swoosh
With a Little Help from My Friends
Bernice
A Dozen Key Chains
You Can Call Me Al
Of Mosquitoes and Men
The "F Word"
Waterloo
America, Land of the Free
The Ham Amendment
Treasure Island
It's All Relatives
Me and Bob Hope
I Ran and I Ran and I Ran
I-raynians Need Not Apply
Girls Just Wanna Have Funds
Joyeuse Noëlle
The Wedding
I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet
A Nose by Any Other Name
Judges Paid Off
If I Were a Rich Man
Afterword: Kazem and Nazireh Jazayeri
Authors & Contributors edit
- Firoozeh Dumas (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Mohammad Soleimani nia (Translator)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Villard
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 1400060400
Page Count: 208
Publisher: Villard
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 1400060400
Page Count: 208
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: E184.I5 D86 2003
- Dewey: 979.4900491550092
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