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Lessons in Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus · 2022

386 pages

In early 1960s California, chemist Elizabeth Zott is pushed out of science by a laboratory that cannot take a woman seriously. She becomes the unlikely host of a cooking show, and quietly teaches its housewife audience something closer to chemistry and self-respect.

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Office Romance, Found Family, Satire

Content warnings: sexual violence

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