7/7/2023 0 Comments Lessons in chemistry a novel![]() ![]() My slight hesitation in fully recommending Lessons in Chemistry is that it deals with some very serious themes. I enjoyed my time with Elizabeth Zott and look forward to whatever Bonnie Garmus writes next. ![]() ![]() (That’s vinegar for all you non-sciency types like me.) It also puts items like “acetic acid” on their shopping lists. “Suppers at Six” finally gives home-bound, invisible moms a platform to ask questions, dream big, and prioritize themselves. Because of the gender roles of that era, her passions and talents for chemistry are going to waste until she ends up with a nightly television show teaching other women how to cook. Still, one thing leads to another, and she finds herself with a daughter living in the suburbs. ![]() Not just any woman, but an atypical one who has no interest in marriage or the other traditional trappings of domestic life. Only problem is that the mind is in the body of the woman. Lessons in Chemistry tells the story of a brilliant scientific mind in the 1960s. Or as the book’s heroine Elizabeth Zott would say, a grain of sodium chloride. Anything less than a 5-star review for Bonnie Garmus’s debut novel is a minority opinion, so take my 4-star thoughts with a grain of salt. ![]()
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