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Meet 2022's most incomparable protagonist! This blockbuster debut set in 1960s California features the singular voice of Elizabeth Zott, a scientist whose career takes a detour when she becomes the star of a beloved TV cooking show. "It's the world versus Elizabeth Zott, an extraordinary woman determined to live on her own terms, and I had no trouble choosing a side...A page-turning and highly satisfying tale: zippy, zesty, and Zotty." --Maggie Shipstead, best-selling author of Great Circle Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with--of all things--her mind. True chemistry results. But like science, life is unpredictable. 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. Elizabeth's unusual approach to cooking ("combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride") proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn't just teaching women to cook. She's daring them to change the status quo. 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.
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Garmus, Bonnie
- ISBN: 9780385547345
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 9.25 x 1.13
- Number Of Pages: 400
- Publication Year: 2022
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A novel that's engaging, outraging and fun
Would RecommendMarilyn H. - 29 days agoElizabeth Zott, ostracized scientist and single mom to a precocious kid and an opinionated dog, became a TV cooking star and inspired a feminist rebellion in 1961. ......... The women in this fictional story faced an uphill obstacle course that was so true to life back in the day, it really hit home for me. Science was still an exclusive men's club when I earned my degree a decade later. A condescending patriarchy still frustrated women, but our paths got easier thanks to the backbone and smarts of trailblazers like Dr. Elizabeth Zott. ......... Bonnie Garmus' novel, Lessons in Chemistry, inspires my admiration, gratitude, empathetic outrage, nostalgia, laughter, tears, and love. And it was fun to read.