October Book Club:Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi

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, and reports stream in of a horrendous-looking criminal who, though shot, cannot be killed. 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.

Please join us for a discussion of Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi on Wednesday October 29th, 2025 from 7pm until 9pm at The Sunflower Market (5847 Merriam Dr Merriam KS).
Copies are available for purchase at The Sunflower Market and on our Bookshop and Libro fm pages. Links below.

Physical & eBook:
https://bookshop.org/a/22454/9780143128793

Audiobook:
https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781524778613-frankenstein-in-baghdad?bookstore=helianthusbooks