This is the type of memoir that I like and enjoy, but that was obviously written with the intention of trying to please everyone. Mrs. Firoozeh Dumas is an Iranian immigrant married to a French immigrant who arrived in America before Americans hated Iran and eventually graduated from UC Berkely. She tells a lot of tales, some funny, some sweet, about what it's like to merge an Iranian upbringing with an American location. But she did seem to go a little overboard sometimes with the whole "I Heart the USA" theme to her essays sometimes. But she also had a some really original and entertaining to things to get across, such as her father's meeting with Albert Einstein and why judging a beauty contest in the Bahamas can turn ugly really quickly. But I'm also a little prejudiced, because in the back of my edition she included an interview she had with a friend of hers, fellow author Khaled Hosseini. you know. the guy who wrote that horrible fucking book, "The Kite Runner." So I can't like her too much when her taste in friends is so shabby.
so, uh, you read anything lately?
Posted by: Alexandra | 09/12/2008 at 07:06 PM