Book Review: Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi

A beautiful satire about our recent history of what it was like to live in Baghdad under the US occupation and in the chaos of the country where suicide bombing is the norm rather than the exception. Everyone in the book has lost someone. Everyone is going to sleep in the bed while outside there’s gunfire. The most memorable line in the book is about the maker of Frankenstein wondering if he will die from the falling bullets. Just a passing thought, and then he goes to sleep. The book is full of...