One of the reasons I’m especially excited about my new book is that it will bring me to the U.S.A. This is not a permanent move I really miss the lecture circuit. Many of the places that book me are high schools and universities, and don’t have the budget to bring me from Germany. I didn’t want to leave – I’m on the lecture circuit and I knew it would be hard to do that from Europe. Our second child was a senior in high school at the time, and I stayed with her in California until she finished. He’s French and had always wanted to work in high tech in Europe, so he got a job in Germany. My husband was working in Silicon Valley and four years ago he lost his job. Iran, California, now Germany – where else have you lived? What took you to these different places? And where do you call home? Currently living in Munich, she spoke from there with PW about how Iran has changed since the 1970s, the difference between writing straight memoir and fictionalized memoir, and the importance of kindness. Humorist Firouzeh Dumas, author of two bestselling memoirs about growing up as an Iranian immigrant in America, Funny in Farsi (Random House, 2003) and Laughing Without an Accent (Random House 2008), now mines her childhood in her debut middle-grade novel, It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel (Clarion, May).
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