This book is an utter delightwry, warm, and compulsively readable. Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist. Lessons in Chemistry is a page-turning and highly satisfying tale: zippy, zesty, and Zotty.' Maggie Shipstead, author of Great Circle 'Lessons in Chemistry is a breath of fresh aira witty, propulsive, and refreshingly hopeful novel populated with singular characters. She’s daring them to change the status quo. That’s because Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. True chemistry results.īut like science, life doesn’t always follow a straight line. Except for one: Calvin Evans the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with-of all things-her mind. Smart, funny, joyous and powerful, Garmus 60s set debut featuring an unconventional female scientist. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman.
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