At this moment in time when our country has a controversy dealing with the Middle East, the book Funny in Farsi, is a comedic and informational autobiography about the author, Firoozeh Dumas, who shares her life growing up Persian America, and more specifically in California. In this book, Dumas talks about her life, relatives, jobs, relationships and experiences with racism. Now you might ask, “What’s so funny about this book?”In order to answer that question, you have to read the book. If you don’t know anything about Persians a.k.a. Iranians, here’s a little known fact: Persian cats don’t actually come from Persia.Now if you like the movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”, you’d be interested in this book because its humorous and witty throughout, as she wrote about and made fun of Persian people, her culture shock when she came to America, her relatives, and her interracial marriage with a French man.She unmasked her whole life, revealing about how her father, who although went to school in America, could not communicate in English very well, and won’t admit his lack of language skills to his family.Then Dumas wrote about her job experiences growing up from baby sitting, house sitting turning into running away from dogs, to not working. She also talks about how her in-laws are so against her marriage with her husband that they didn’t even show up for their wedding day. In this passage Dumas makes fun of the women in their culture about their noses in the chapter “A Nose by Any Other Name”.”In Iranian culture, a woman’s nose is much more than a breathing device; it is her destiny. A girl with an ugly nose learns early on to dream of one thing only- a skilled plastic surgeon.” Funny in Farsi is a book to read if you want to learn about a culture in the Middle East, through the memoirs of Firoozeh Dumas.