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Lessons in Chemistry

by Bonnie Garmus (2022)

About this book

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 Calvin Evans, the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with her mind.

Setting / LocationSouthern California, US
Story Era1960s
Protagonist / CoreElizabeth Zott (Female Chemist, Single Mother)

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