In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father’s glowing memories of his graduate school years here. In a series of deftly drawn scenes, Funny in Farsi chronicles the American journey of Dumas’ wonderfully engaging family… An unforgettable story of identity, discovery, and the power of family love…
The story of the rise and fall of those comic books has never been fully told — until The Ten-Cent Plague. David Hajdu’s remarkable new book vividly opens up the lost world of comic books, its creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority. The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between “high” and “low” art.
Mrs. Laetitia Rodd, aged 52, is the widow of an archdeacon who makes her living as a highly discreet private investigator. Her brother Frederick, a criminal barrister, finds the cases, and Laetitia solves them using her arch intelligence and her immaculate cover as an unsuspecting widow…
