The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, (Paperback)

from suesbooks

I read this book a second time for a different book group. I liked the journalistic writing, and appreciated learning what Lognado's immigrant family experienced.

from LaBibliophille

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit is an extraordinarily moving and well-written memoir that speaks to the immigrant experience that built America. The focus is on author Lucette Lagnando's family, particularly her father, Leon. Leon was a prosperous Cairo businessman. A lover of Cairo's nightli...

from Eye_Gee

A moving memoir written by a woman, born in the mid -1950's to a prosperous, Jewish family in Cairo. Forced to leave Egypt in the early 1960's, they moved to Paris and then New York. Though much diminished financially, they managed to re-connect culturally with other immigrants from the Levant. I...

from flashflood42

A fascinating portrait of what it was like to live in Cairo in the 1950's pre-Nasser and during Nasser's time if one was a well-to-do Syrian Jewish family. The book is a memoir by the author (a Wall St. Journal investigative reporter) of her father, an elegant though somewhat dissipated business ...

from caroren

Lagnado's captivating account of her family's life in cosmopolitan Cairo and painful relocation to America centers on her beloved father. Dashing man-about-town Leon Lagnado, who kept to his carousing ways even after marrying a beautiful women 22 years his junior, was enraptured at the age of 55 ...