Lucette Lanado was a successful Jewish Egyptian businessman, making deals and trades around Cairo dressed in signature white sharkskin suit.After the rise of the Nasser dictatorship, the Lagnado family lost everything and was forced to trade their life of luxury in Cairo for one of hardship, entering any country that would have them. A vivid, heartbreaking and powerful inversion of the American dream, Lucette Lanado’s unforgottable memoir is a sweeping story of family,faith, tradition, tragedy and triumph set against the stunning backdrops of Cairo, Paris and New York. Lucette Lanado is an award-winning investigative reporter for The Wall Streets Journal and recieved the Saint Rohr Perize for Jewish Literature.
