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The arrogant years : one girl's search for her lost youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn / Lucette Lagnado.

by Lagnado, Lucette.

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New York : Ecco, c2011.

Lagnado, Lucette.

Jews -- Egypt -- Cairo -- Biography.

Jews, Egyptian -- New York (State) -- Biography.

Egyptian Americans -- New York (State) -- Biography.

9780061803673 :

xii, 402 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

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 Mazli Street -- Rebuilding the hearth. The legend of Agent Extraordinary ; Passion play on Sixty-seventy 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 afterword ; 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 -- Inside the Pasha's library.

An autobiography of Lagnado's early years as an immigrant from Cairo to Brooklyn, reflecting on her own mother's story as she makes her own choices.

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