Is that boy from your country? she asked me. Why, yes, I wanted to tell her. In my country, which I own, this is National Lose Your Child at Disneyland Day. No, I told her. He’s not from my country.
Firoozeh Dumas
Is that boy from your country? she asked me. Why, yes, I wanted to tell her. In my country, which I own, this is National Lose Your Child at Disneyland Day. No, I told her. He’s not from my country.
Firoozeh Dumas (Persian: فیروزه دوما) (born June 26, 1965, in Abadan, Iran) is an Iranian-American writer who writes in English. She is the author of the memoirs Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America (2003) and Laughing without an Accent: Adventures of a Global Citizen (2008), and the semi-autobiographical novel It Ain't so Awful, Falafel (2016).
