A series of autobiographical essays sharing the author’s bittersweet memories of life in Alexandria, Europe, and Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

André Aciman  born 2 January 1951) is an Italian-American writer. Born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, he is currently a distinguished professor at the Graduate Centre of University of New York, where he teaches the history of literary theory and the works of Marcel Proust. Aciman previously taught creative writing at New York University and French literature at Princeton.