Reviving woolly mammoths and a mom’s relationship with her daughters
by Heller McAlpin
Apr 18, 2023
3 minutes
Women scientists, long given a raw deal in labs, are having their day in novels. Last year, Bonnie Garmus’ enormously popular “Lessons in Chemistry” introduced a brilliant, mistreated research chemist who found unexpected, sweet revenge as host of a provocative cooking show that dared women to rethink their life recipes.
Now we have Ramona Ausubel’s “The Last Animal,” which features another scientist, also a single mother and widow of a fellow scientist. Ausubel’s ambitious heroine is tired of being “twice as capable and half
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