THE Reading room
The Tenth Muse
by Catherine Chung, Little, Brown
Katherine is a mathematical genius. She’s also a woman in a man’s world and an Asian American. Together, this heady mix makes for a turbulent life for our heroine in the 1960s, when the academic world was scarred with inequality. Katherine’s brilliance is too often eclipsed by the burden of her gender and race and it hurts,
