Lucette Lagnado is the author of two memoirs about her Egyptian-Jewish family, “The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family’s Exodus From Old Cairo to the New World,” published by Ecco in 2007, and more recently, with the same publisher, “The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, From Cairo to Brooklyn.” She is a reporter at The Wall Street Journal.
