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It Ain't So Awful, Falafel
by Firoozeh Dumas
Iranian American in 1979. Her country is on the news. Not in a good way.
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Zomorod — who renames herself Cindy to fit in — is an Iranian American girl in California in the late 1970s navigating the Iran hostage crisis from the inside of an American middle school. Her father is an optimist. Her classmates are not always kind. Dumas writes with the same warm comedy she brought to Funny in Farsi but pitched directly at middle grade readers — the specific humiliation and resilience of being the kid whose country is suddenly on the news for the wrong reasons. The most important Iranian American middle grade novel and the one that most honestly captures what it feels like to be caught between two countries in conflict.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Iran • Middle East
- Voice
- Written by a Iranian author
- Themes
- Borderlands
