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One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn
Ecco / HarperCollins
September 2011
On Sale: September 6, 2011
352 pages
ISBN: 0061803677
EAN: 9780061803673
Kindle: B004PYDNH4
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The author of the award-winning The Man in the White
Sharkskin Suit—hailed by the New York Times book review as a
“crushing, brilliant book”—returns with this, the
extraordinary follow-up memoir In The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, Lucette Lagnado
offered a heartbreaking portrait of her father, Leon, a
successful Cairo boulevardier who was forced to take flight
with his family during the rise of the Nasser dictatorship,
and of her family’s struggle to rebuild a new life in a new
land. In this much-anticipated new memoir, Lagnado tells the story
of her mother, Edith, coming of age in a magical old Cairo
of dusty alleyways and grand villas inhabited by pashas and
their wives. Then Lagnado revisits her own early years in
America—first, as a schoolgirl in Brooklyn’s immigrant
enclaves, where she dreams of becoming the fearless Mrs.
Emma Peel of The Avengers, and later, as an “avenging”
reporter for some of America’s most prestigious newspapers.
A stranger growing up in a strange land, when she turns
sixteen Lagnado’s adolescence is further complicated by
cancer. Its devastating consequences would rob her of her
“arrogant years”—the years defined by an overwhelming sense
of possibility, invincibility, and confidence. Lagnado looks
to the women sequestered behind the wooden screen at her
childhood synagogue, to the young coeds at Vassar and
Columbia in the 1970s, to her own mother and the women of
their past in Cairo, and reflects on their stories as she
struggles to make sense of her own choices.
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