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Lucette Lagnado


The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn
 Lucette Lagnado's most recent book, The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn, is now available. Lucette won the 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her memoir The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World. 


An Arrogant Revolution

Mourning My Arab Spring

Lost and Found in Brooklyn





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