Lucette Lagnado: The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

(Memoir, 352 pp. 2007)

This award-winning memoir by Wall Street Journal reporter Lagnado chronicles her Jewish family’s traditions, tragedies and triumphs in their epic 1963 exodus 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.)