Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday
f you read just one book this year make sure it’s . Clever, hilarious, thought-provoking, uplifting … I could go on. Although set in the 1960s, protagonist Elizabeth Zott is a woman for our times who challenges the status quo with the sort of resolve we all wish we in which she presents the nightly meal prep as a chemistry lesson. Water is HO, salt – sodium chloride … for Elizabeth’s passion isn’t cooking, she’s a scientist. The story of how she landed in this seemingly unsuitable job unfolds at a dazzling pace and is served up with a delicious side-order of kick-arse feminism.
