
Instead, her memoir is personal, describing her struggles with her distant mother and her stern, difficult grandmother. Although Rossant ( Memories of a Lost Egypt) came of age in Paris during one of its headiest times-the 1950s-she doesn't offer much in the way of descriptions of the era. This book charts Rossant's years in Paris and ends shortly after her marriage to an American. When she was a teen, Rossant, whose mother was French and father was Egyptian, moved from Cairo back to Paris (where she was born) with her widowed mother to live with her grandmother in the upscale 17th arrondissement.
