Arrogant Years One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn

Name: Arrogant Years One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn
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ISBN: 9780061803697

ISBN-10: 0061803693

ISBN-13: 9780061803697

Edition: 2013

Authors: Lucette Lagnado

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“[Lagnado writes] in crystalline yet melodious prose.”—New York TimesLucette 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, The Arrogant Years is a stunning work of memory and resilience that ranges from Cairo to Brooklyn and beyond—the…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/17/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.39" wide x 8.07" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Prologue: The Avenger of Sixty-Sixth Street



The Curse of Alexandra



The Secret of the Pasha's Wife



The Alley of the Pretty One



The Bride Who Set Herself on Fire



The Bonesetter of Mouski



The Porcelain Dolls of Malaka Nazli Street



Rebuilding the Heart



The Legend of Agent Extraordinary



Passion Play on Sixty-Seventh Street



The Healing Powers of Iodine



The Errant Sister



The Passion of the Fast



The Messiah Is a Woman



The Tragedy of the Navy Blue Blazer



The Advance of the Little Porcelain Dolls



Cities of Refuge



The Shrine on the Mountain



The Fall of Afterward



The Spring of Nevermore



The Princess of West 116th Street



The Lady in the Pink Bow



The Lost Art of Penmanship



The Woman Against the Wall



An Earthquake in Cairo



The Book of Lamentations



The Verse of Consolation


Epilogue: Inside the Pasha's Library


Acknowledgments


Bibliography