Lucette Lagnado - The Arrogant Years

In this follow up to her best-selling memoir, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, which won the 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and was hailed by the NYT as a "crushing, brilliant book," Lagnado weaves the story of her mother's childhood in Cairo with her own stunning tale of making a way in America and battling cancer at sixteen.