The Arrogant Years, Lucette Lagnado
The Arrogant Years, Lucette Lagnado
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The Arrogant Years
One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn

Author: Lucette Lagnado

Narrator: Joyce Bean

Unabridged: 11 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ecco

Published: 05/19/2020

Synopsis

“[Lagnado writes] in crystalline yet melodious prose.”
—New York TimesLucette Lagnado’s acclaimed, award-winning The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit (“[a] crushing, brilliant book” —New York Times Book Review) told the powerfully moving story of her Jewish family’s exile from Egypt. In her extraordinary follow-up memoir, The Arrogant Years, Lagnado revisits her first years in America, and describes a difficult coming-of-age tragically interrupted by a bout with cancer at age 16. At once a poignant mother and daughter story and a magnificent snapshot of the turbulent ’60s and ’70s, The Arrogant Years is a stunning work of memory and resilience that ranges from Cairo to Brooklyn and beyond—the unforgettable true story of a remarkable young woman’s determination to push past the boundaries of her life and make her way in the wider world.

About Lucette Lagnado

Born in Cairo, Lucette Lagnado and her family were forced to flee Egypt as refugees when she was a small child, eventually coming to New York. She was the author of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, for which she received the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature in 2008, and is the coauthor of Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz, which has been translated into nearly a dozen foreign languages. Joining the Wall Street Journal in 1996, she received numerous awards and was a senior special writer and investigative reporter. She died in 2019.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Doug on October 07, 2011

Almost inconceivable that Lagnado could surpass "Man in the White Sharkskin Suit," but she does exactly that in this haunting and heartbreaking companion memoir. Every single chapter -- no, make that every single page -- seems to grab the reader by the throat, or at least by the lapels, and cast it......more

Goodreads review by Ruby on January 19, 2021

I loved her first book, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World, but I think I love this one even more. She picks up the story with the family's flight from her family's beloved Egypt, where her father was a successful businessman and the family......more

Goodreads review by Robert on April 26, 2019

If you enjoyed, as I did, Lucette Lagnado’s The Man in the Sharkskin Suit, I suspect you’ll find The Arrogant Years a satisfying companion piece. In the new book, Ms. Lagnado tells the story of her mother, Edith, a complex, charming and troubled woman. Edith, a bibliophile, a woman whose call to tea......more

Goodreads review by Leora on October 23, 2011

Lucette Lagnado is back to tell us more of her family's tale. This book focuses on her mother and on her own youthful teenage years in Brooklyn and later in college. The prologue is a tale of her challenging the status quo in her little synagogue in Brooklyn, regarding the mehitza (the divider betwe......more

Goodreads review by S on November 26, 2018

Lagnado’s memoir introduces us to her parents’ vanished tolerant and progressive world of 1920-30’s Egypt and how these values were crushed by the Revolution of 1956 and decades of rule by the generals which now has returned to Egypt. She presents us with the world of the Egyptian Jews as she journe......more

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