" During his next visit, my father secretly decided that our bathroom needed towel hooks. Using nails that were too long, my father pierced the door, creating towel hooks on one side, medieval blinding devices on the other...No matter how inconvenient a household malfunction might be, Kazem can always make it worse, for free. "

― Firoozeh Dumas , Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America