Memoirs of a Woman Doctor by Nawal El Saadawi is very short and doesn’t have much to keep track of. I’m not sure any characters even have names. After a dense several hundred page novel with dozens of characters to keep track of, it was very nice to read something short and light. Although it wasn’t that light for how little happens. Because sexism. The protagonist is an unnamed girl, turned student, turned doctor, turned woman in mid-20th century Egypt. These identities overlap, but there […]