Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus · 2022
A female chemist in the 1960s ends up hosting a cooking show. Garmus's debut is sharp-elbowed feminist comedy that balances genuine anger at sexism with total readability. Apple TV+ adaptation, global bestseller.
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Elizabeth Zott thinks like a 2020s feminist who has wandered into 1960 wearing period costume, and every second man she meets is a leering cartoon. The dog gets point-of-view chapters. Garmus makes her argument about sexism in the first fifty pages, then makes it again, identically, for three hundred more.
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