New Book

A patient told me about this book about 6 months ago, I wrote down the title on a sticky note and stuck it up on my desk so I would remember to go get it. I finally got around to going to the library to check it out.

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks. I'm only up to the middle of chapter 3, its very interesting. I'm familiar with some of their customes and mutilation customs but to hear the mutilations described so frankly really is shocking. Geraldine is an american women who spent 6 years in the middle east, she write about the friends she made and her own encounters. Its extremenly interesting to read the different spectrums of women in the same religion and beleifs and actual accounts of these womens lives.