The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn

by Lucette Lagnado

Book Overview

In this much-anticipated new memoir, Lucette Lagnado revisits her first years in America, first in Brooklyn, then at Vassar and Columbia, revealing a coming-of-age interrupted by a bout with cancer at age 16. Its devastating consequences would rob her of her ability to have children and of her "arrogant years" -the years defined by their overwhelming sense of possibility, invincibility, and confidence-leaving her with the lonely echo of her own...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061803693
• ISBN13: 9780061803697
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.4"