Lessons in Chemistry
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Lessons in Chemistry (2022) is Bonnie Garmus's first novel. In early 1960s California, Elizabeth Zott is a gifted chemist working in a research institute where male colleagues dismiss her and take credit for her work. Pushed out of the lab and raising a daughter alone, she becomes the unlikely host of a television cooking show, Supper at Six. Treating cooking as chemistry, Elizabeth uses the programme to teach her mostly female audience science and to challenge the expectations placed on them.
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- Melinda French Gates: “It’s a blast to watch Elizabeth Zott triumph by being unapologetically herself.”