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Within the best-selling memoir Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas recounted her adventures growing up Iranian National in Southern California. Today she again mines her wealthy Local history in Giggling Lacking any Feature, discussing tales equally sensitive and funny on being fully a person of the planet, on her well meaning family, and on entertaining social conundrums, all informed with observations in to the universality of the human situation. (Hint: It might need to do with cleaning and flossing daily.)With dry humor and a daring nature, Dumas places her very own distinctive mark on the subjects of family, community, and history. She braves the unusual palette of her French-born spouse and discovers the subtleties of getting her guide converted for Local viewers (the censors change out all referrals to pork).