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The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn Paperback – April 17, 2012

by Lucette Lagnado (Author)
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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Ecco; Reprint edition (April 17, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0061803693
  • ISBN-13: 978-0061803697
  • Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.9 x 8 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsA scintillating memoir
By Peter Bloch on September 7, 2011
Format: Hardcover
Lagnado's "The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit" was her first memoir and focused on her father and her family's exile from Egypt, where she was born. This new book is about her mother, a brilliant gentle soul whose love of French literature and civilization could not withstand life in 1970s New York City. As in her first book, Lagnado's shimmering prose magically brings the past alive, but her mother's story is even more heartbreaking than her father's, especially in the last years when her fading mother falls into the clutches of uncaring doctors and nursing homes. Lagnado's heroic efforts to preserve her mom's dignity and personal freedom is compelling--and this beautiful memoir should be read alongside Jane Gross's "A Bittersweet Season" to get a full and depressing idea of what the future holds for all of us.
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5.0 out of 5 stars"Where was my sense of purpose?"
By E. Bukowsky HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on September 13, 2011
Format: Hardcover
Lucette Lagnado's "The Arrogant Years" is an elegant and elegiac memoir about her family's life in Cairo and their resettlement in America. Lagnado, an award-winning investigative reporter, invests her writing with so much warmth, humor, and evocative detail that we find ourselves strolling with her down the streets of Cairo; dropping in on her family in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn; sitting with her in the woman's section of her synagogue, the Shield of Young David; and accompanying her on her odyssey from a sheltered young woman to an independent and, at times, conflicted adult.

The author's candor, appreciation of her multicultural heritage (Jewish, as well as Arabic and French), and understanding of how the past and the present are intertwined, all breathe life into this account of a youngster who is bright, curious, and always a bit dissatisfied. She alludes to the once Golden Age in Cairo, where Jews held prominent positions and lived with Muslims and Christians in harmony. In fact, Madame Alice Cattaui Pasha, a beautiful and compassionate woman, was one of the wealthiest, grandest, and most influential people in Cairo. The elegant Madame Cattaui, who was Jewish, was the king's confidante. She socialized with eminent men and women, hosted magnificent gatherings, and took time from her busy schedule to lend assistance to impoverished students.

Everything changed in 1956, when many Egyptian Jews started to flee the country to such far-flung locations as Australia and Brazil. In 1963, Lagnado's family traveled briefly to France and then took up residence in Brooklyn. Although they were members of a close-knit community, they were no longer prosperous.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsMagical & Mesmerizing, Haunting & Heartbreaking
By Douglas Feiden on September 19, 2011
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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 its spell with some of the language's most magical and mesmerizing prose. You don't have to be Sephardic, you don't have to be Jewish, you don't even have to be a fan of "The Avengers" and Emma Peel in her black leather jumpsuit (although it helps) to love this captivating and hypnotic saga of a family that once upon a time in Egypt dined with Kings, created libraries for Pashas -- and then became pariahs and outcasts and wounded birds and broken refugees washed up on the shores of the New World. And yes, I'm a biased critic -- I'm the husband of the author, a (fairly minor) character in her new book, and one who had the supreme pleasure of hearing every single chapter of "The Arrogant Years" read aloud during its creation in Manhattan, Montreal, Sag Harbor, Cairo, Jerusalem, Paris, London, Geneva and Milan. -- Douglas Feiden, New York City
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5.0 out of 5 starsCharming, Touching, and Brave
By Eileen Pollock on September 12, 2011
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Lucette Lagnado first wrote memorably about her father in The Man in the Sharkskin Suit. This sequel is built around her mother Edith, a literary talent whose career in Egypt as teacher and librarian to the pasha's wife was cut short by an early marriage and children. The story also concentrates on the author's childhood and youth in Egypt then Brooklyn, her self absorption and arrogance, her determination to right wrongs and pursue justice. By the end of the book she has come full circle, to the realization that the women's section of the synagogue she was trying to break out of was the only place she had known warmth and security. The last chapters describe how her elderly mother was treated in a nursing home, a horror story that will chill the heart of anyone who possesses one. Lagnado's sensitivity is profound and her determination to illuminate truth can only be called courageous. Her book is filled with descriptions of clothes she hungered after as a child, but as she matures, she has researched the dispersal of the once thriving community of Jews of Egypt. Yet you do not have to be an Egyptian Jew to identify with her story. I was deeply moved, coming from a very enclosed religious community myself. I have often felt like a foreigner in America, although I was born here. Lucette Lagnado writes beautifully, simply, whole-heartedly. How I wish I knew someone like her in this strange country, New York.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat book!

Never been interested in history but this book stunned me with the knowledge of the treatment of the Jews in Egypt. Could not stop reading about this little known era. Read more

Published 7 months ago by Shannon Reeves
5.0 out of 5 starsGoodbye Cairo, Hello Brooklyn.

A touching and inspirational memoir to her mother, and a completion of the migration story
told about her father in "The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit. Read more

Published 8 months ago by Dear Reader
5.0 out of 5 starsThe Arrogant Years

This sequel to Lagnado's "The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit" gave us a picture of the immigrant experience. Not always pretty, but a lesson for all. Read more

Published 9 months ago by Lillie
4.0 out of 5 starsNice reading. A sort of upper class lady telling ...

Nice reading. A sort of upper class lady telling a world and time she lived, that doesn't exist any more.

Published 11 months ago by buyer from Florida
5.0 out of 5 starsMesmerizing

As memorable as The. man in the sharkskin suit. Both books together paint a picture of old Cairo for which we morn even if we have never visited there. Superbly written. Read more

Published 16 months ago by gayle
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat follow up to her first memoir

Great follow up to her first book - The Man with the Skark Skin Suit. The beginning has a review of the history of the relationship between Jews and Muslims. Read more

Published 16 months ago by Marsha S. Auster
3.0 out of 5 starsNot as interesting as "Man in Sharkskin Suit. " ...

Not as interesting as "Man in Sharkskin Suit." She spent too much time dwelling on her mother's decline and death, something we all go through but don't publish in a book.

Published 18 months ago by Barbara Shapiro
5.0 out of 5 starsI love reading about Cairo and it's former Jewish community

I love reading about Cairo and it's former Jewish community, especially about the Mass exodus of the late 50's and early 60's. I can certainly identify with Lucette Lagnado. Read more

Published 19 months ago by Sylvana
2.0 out of 5 starsI read "The Man In The White Sharkskin suit and I loved it. I would...

I plowed through it not particularly enjoying it. A friend told me
she didn't finish it. I read "The Man In The White Sharkskin
suit and I loved it. Read more

Published 19 months ago by Jane Rudner
4.0 out of 5 starsA Beautiful Mind....

Thoroughly enjoyable reading. It provided insight into the mind of a bright, adorable young woman growing up in an unfamiliar world. Read more

Published 20 months ago by onekitsel

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