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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 Suitβhailed by the New York Times book review as a βcrushing, brilliant bookββreturns 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 familyβs 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 Americaβfirst, as a schoolgirl in Brooklynβs immigrant enclaves, where she dreams of becoming the fearless Mrs. Emma Peel of The Avengers, and later, as an βavengingβ reporter for some of Americaβs most prestigious newspapers. A stranger growing up in a strange land, when she turns sixteen Lagnadoβs adolescence is further complicated by cancer. Its devastating consequences would rob her of her βarrogant yearsββthe 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.
 Media BuzzWeekend Edition Saturday - September 17, 2011
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