The Book Girl's Book Club Pick for August: Frankenstein in Baghdad

Here is the book club pick for August: Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi. I like to post the book early so that anyone who is interested participating in the book club will have enough time to get it.

The last couple of weeks I had asked my family and friends for book recommendations and this was one of the suggestions. The title alone sounds intriguing but after reading the description, I knew this would be an excellent pick for The Book Girl's Book Club because of the interesting take on the Frankenstein story.

So if you're interested, please join me next month in reading this for book club.

Book: Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi with translations by Jonathan Wright

Description:

From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.- occupied Baghdad, Hadi -- a scavenger and an oddball fixture at a local café -- collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people and to give them proper burial. But when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps the city. Hadi soon realizes he's created a monster, one that needs human flesh to survive -- first from the guilty, and then from anyone in its path. With white-knuckle horror and black humor, Frankenstein in Baghdad captures the surreal reality of contemporary Iraq.