(Memoir, 352 pp. 2007)
This award-winning memoir by a Wall Street Journal reporter chronicles her Jewish family’s traditions, tragedies and triumphs in their epic exodus in 1963 from the splendor of cosmopolitan Cairo, to Paris, and finally Brooklyn.
- Discussion questions
- Kirkus Review
- Review by Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, August 10, 2007
- Review by Alana Newhouse, New York Times, August 12, 2007
- Biographical sketch
- Caroline Lagnado interviews Lucette Lagnado, Jewish week, March 15, 2011
- Steve Pollack interviews Lucette Lagnado
- Video presentation (11 min.)
- Video lecture (76 min.)
