The man in the white sharkskin suit lucette lagnado. The part time sag harbor resident covered healthcare, jewish culture and immigration for. She and her family left egypt as refugees when she was a small child, an experience that helped shape and inform her recent memoir, the man in the white sharkskin suit. Lucette lagnado s father, leon, is a successful egyptian businessman and boulevardier who, dressed in his signature white sharkskin suit, makes deals and trades at shepherds hotel and at the dark bar of the nile hilton. With nassers nationalization of egyptian industry, her father, leon, a boulevardier who conducted business in his white sharkskin suit, loses everything, and departs with the family for any land that will take them. Lucette lagnado, prizewinner writer on her egyptian.
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