Maisel, Lessons in Chemistry is described as witty, laugh-out-loud funny, and must-read debut. Yet, as her following grows, so does the implication that women don’t just belong in the kitchen.Ĭompared to Where’d You Go, Bernadette and The Marvelous Mrs. Her unusual approach to cooking proves revolutionary and gains her a large following. Struggling with inequality, the difficulties of her field, and her role to her child, Zott finds herself reluctantly leaving the research facility and starting a cooking show with a fellow parent. Left alone with a dog and an unborn child, Elizabeth has to learn to handle motherhood as an unwed mother. While the two seem like an unlikely pair, their time together is much more than romantic chemistry-that is, until Evans suffers from a tragic accident. Zott is working on an important project when she meets Calvin Evans, an infamous scientist also working for the same research company. Zott is a female scientist on an all-male research team in a time where women were more often housewives than chemists. Set in California in the 1960s, Lessons in Chemistry is the story of Elizabeth Zott. Reviewed by The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, Lessons in Chemistry is certainly a book that has gained speed quickly. Less inventive.” Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry (14) SYNOPSIS “Her grudges were mainly reserved for a patriarchal society founded on the idea that women were less.
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