“[Lagnado writes] in crystalline yet melodious prose.”
—
New York Times
Lucette 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,
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.