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Bonnie Garmus
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Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry hands us Elizabeth Zott, a 1960s research chemist with zero patience for nonsense, who ends up reinventing a daytime cooking show into a quiet act of rebellion. It's witty, warm, and angrier than its breezy surface suggests, a feminist historical novel with a real charge underneath the comedy.