Got this from my sister-in-law. Lagnado writes with incredible detail and emotional memory of her mother’s childhood in Egypt and their family’s flight to New York City after the overthrow of the King in the 50s. I absolutely loved the glimpse into Egypt in the early 1900s and the story of Egyptian Jewish immigrants in the 1960s and 70s. But Lagnado could have written 2 books for all she put into this one. I wish she had written a book about her mother and then one about herself.
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