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In Today's San Francisco Chronicle there's a great article about Firoozeh Dumas. Firoozeh is the author of the hilarious book Funny In Farsi. It's a wry and loving take on growing up Iranian-American.

When we asked Firoozeh to write the foreword to our student anthology Finding our Way a few years ago, she was more than happy to. We still remember her appearance at our student reading at A Clean Well Lighted Place for Books. She made sure the students read first, and when it was all over, she bought a huge stack of books to give to people she knew would be interested in Streetside.

Since then, Funny in Farsi has been chosen as part of the recommended reading list for California public school students, and whole cities have been reading her book.