Lucette Lagnado, Author

The Arrogant Years: One  Girl's Search for her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn

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.  This is an 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.

Co-sponsored by the Mercaz Dahan Center and the Jewish Book Council.

Advance reservations requested.