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 of this country beyond her father’s glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and the clan has been here ever since. Funny in Farsi chronicles the American journey of Dumas’s wonderfully engaging family: her engineer father, a sweetly quixotic dreamer who first sought riches on Bowling for Dollars and in Las Vegas, and later lost his job during the Iranian revolution; her elegant mother, who never fully mastered English (nor cared to); her uncle, who combated the effects of American fast food with an army of miraculous American weight-loss gadgets; and Firoozeh herself, who as a girl changed her name to Julie, and who encountered a second wave of culture shock when she met and married a Frenchman, becoming part of a one-couple melting pot. In a series of deftly drawn scenes, we watch the family grapple with American English (hot dogs and hush puppies?—a complete mystery), American traditions (Thanksgiving turkey?—an even greater mystery, since it tastes like nothing), and American culture (Firoozeh’s parents laugh uproariously at Bob Hope on television, although they don’t get the jokes even when she translates them into Farsi). Above all, this is an unforgettable story of identity, discovery, and the power of family love. It is a book that will leave us all laughing—without an accent.

中犹混血儿铁红口述实录，滇缅公路秘密史无前例大公开：信仰、爱情和战争直抵人性之旅所象征的公路上的每个痛苦而深沉的灵魂。本书再现了“我”母亲（德国犹太人）所经历的那段著名的为躲避纳粹屠杀逃往中国的犹太难民潮历史。在滇缅公路母亲与中国父亲相识相爱和结婚，在中国遭遇了抗战、内战、土改，终因信仰差异离婚，携“我”回以色列，却卷入了中东战争。母亲再嫁在中国认识的美军飞行员，移居美国。长大后“我”毅然回中国寻找生父，却在金三角的另一条公路上，遭遇此生最刻骨铭心的爱情，从毒品世界中觉醒的爱人“罕”为追求真理而...