Arrogant Years

<p>[Lagnado writes] in crystalline yet melodious prose.<br />--<em>New York Times</em></p><p>Lucette Lagnado's acclaimed award-winning <em>The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit</em> ([a] crushing brilliant book --<em>New York Times Book Review</em>) told the powerfully moving story of her Jewish family's exile from Egypt. In her extraordinary follow-up memoir <em>The Arrogant Years</em> 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 <em>The Arrogant Years</em> 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.<br /></p>