Awards &
Reviews
Awards
Pinnacle Book Achievement Award in the Educational category
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Organization: National Association of Book Entrepreneurs.
The book has earned the prestigious IndieReader Approved designation, with a rating of 4 stars or above!
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Organization: Indie Reader
Award: International Book Awards – Women's Issues/Women's Studies
Organization: American Book Fest
Award: Literary Titan Book Award – Inspiration
Organization: Literary Titan
Next Best Read Awards: Women's Issues - Honorable Mention (NonFiction Category)
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Organization: Excalibre Publishing
Reviews
Indie Reader Review
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IR Rating: 4.8/5
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Marlene Belfort’s MOMMY, CAN BOYS ALSO BE DOCTORS?: A Message to Young Scientists and Other Humans is a potent reminder that the most meaningful lives often emerge not from perfectly executed plans but from courageously muddling through life's inevitable complexities.
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The Enterprise Review
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Falmouth resident Marlene Belfort has written a memoir, “Mommy, Can Boys Also Be Doctors? A Message To Young Scientists And Other Humans,” released in late April.
The book chronicles Dr. Belfort’s life, from her early years growing up in South Africa, where her parents relocated in order to escape Hitler, to Israel, London and finally the United States, where she and her husband, George, have lived and worked since the late 1960s.​​​​
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Marlene Belfort’s Mommy, Can Boys Also Be Doctors? is a memoir as layered as the life it chronicles. At once deeply personal and sweeping in scope, it traces the author’s journey from a girl growing up in apartheid South Africa to a pioneering molecular biologist in the U.S. The book is divided into five thematic sections, each tackling different life chapters—from her immigrant upbringing and the devastating loss of her father to her rise in science, balancing motherhood, coping with depression, and reflecting on aging.
