Her Name Was Anarcha: A Novel of Anarcha-and the Women Medicine Tried to Erase

By Magdi Abdullah Ahmed

A name stitched in thread. A career built on her pain. A doctor who refuses to let her vanish.

Seventeen-year-old Anarcha is forced into a string of experimental surgeries that will make a man's reputation and change women's health forever-without her consent. Generations later, OB/GYN resident Maya opens an unlabeled archive box and finds a hand-stitched scrap with a single word: ANARCHA.

What begins as curiosity becomes a reckoning. As Maya follows ledgers, floor plans, and family lullabies, she uncovers the hidden architecture of a medical miracle-built on the bodies of women denied the dignity of their own names. When power closes ranks, she risks her future to restore a voice history tried to erase.

HER NAME WAS ANARCHA is a propulsive, heart-true novel about memory, medicine, and the cost of progress-braiding a young woman's fight to be more than a "case" with a modern doctor's struggle to tell the whole truth.

For readers of The Yellow Wife, Beloved, and Homegoing-stories that honor the dead by speaking their names.

Content Note: Includes historically accurate depictions of medical exploitation without graphic detail. An author's note and sources are included for transparency.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FW5D3HJ8
• ISBN13: 9798269743851
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"