Join Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lucinda Franks and Wall Street Journal reporter Lucette Lagnado in a conversation about the deep, mysterious love between daughters and the fathers they've written about.
Sandee Brawarsky, book critic for The Jewish Week, will moderate the discussion.
THE MAN IN THE WHITE SHARKSKIN SUIT, by Lucette Lagnado, is about a Jewish family's exodus from Cairo to Paris to New York. Beautifully written, the memoir recreates the majesty and glamour of old Cairo, and the pain of exile in New York. Lucette Lagnado is married to Doug Feiden, an investigative reporter for the Daily News.
MY FATHER'S SECRET WAR, by Lucinda Franks, is a rich and riv-eting memoir about a reporter who unearths secrets in her father’s past that bring them together after decades of estrangement. The remote man that the author grew up with had in fact been a daring spy behind enemy lines in World War II, and had witnessed Nazi atrocities that he had promised never to reveal. Lucinda Franks is married to Rob-ert Morgenthau, New York CountyDistrict Attorney.
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