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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
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A Good Book for A Discussion
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There is much to discuss in this story. First there is the lives and attitudes of the nonArabs who lived in Egypt prior to the government of Nasser. For the most part life was good for them . Their diets and some their customs were similar to the Egyptians but they seemed to possess a superior attitutude. Egyptian Jews acted in some ways like the colonial English. The author's mother, grandmother,and some members of her family never learned to speak Arabic.
The author's father continued his all night ramblings even after he was married and only seemed to stop when he had an accident. As he grew older he became more likible to me.
The lives of the Egyptians was very interesting and the descriptions of Jewish Cairo were good.
My heart went out to Alexandra, the maternal grandmother of the author. She sufferered poverty, loss of a child in the most terrible way, and loneliness. She was truly a tragic figure.
The family's life in Paris and their life in Brookyn was very interesting. I was annoyed that the author felt that America owed her more( for example the fact that her brother had to attend college at night).
Anyway, I was fascinated by this story and would recommend it.
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