Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World | 
pickA memoir by a woman whose family, who were wealthy and prominent members of the Jewish community in Cairo, are forced to flee Egypt in the early 1960s after the fall of King Farouk and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. The book chronicles the family‘s sudden poverty and the hardships they encounter in their flight from Cairo to New York, where they try to assimilate into a country and culture that is foreign to them. A decent read. 3 stars
pickI've started reading for nonfiction in the Sami Rohr Prize for emerging Jewish authors! #JewLit. Though this memoir is so rich and textured that it feels like fiction. Great characters and setting underwrite the lost community of Egyptian Jews. I review this, another memoir and some social history on #booktube. https://youtu.be/h-W-CwH6HJk
Loved this memoir. It's about a Jewish family's exodus from Cairo to the New World--can't remember when the pain of exile has been so well described.
