Lessons in Chemistry

by Bonnie Garmus

Hardcover, 2022

Status

Checked out
Due 6/21/2024

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FIC GARM

Rating

(1485 ratings; 4.2)

Description

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 one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with, of all things, her mind. True chemistry results. But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth's unusual approach to cooking proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn't just teaching women to cook. She's daring them to change the status quo.… (more)

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2022

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Awards

Dublin Literary Award (Longlist — 2023)
British Book Award (Shortlist — 2023)
Australian Book Industry Awards (Shortlist — 2023)
Books Are My Bag Readers Award (Winner — Readers' Choice — 2023)
Waterstones Book of the Year (Shortlist — 2022)
Comedy Women In Print (Runner-Up — 2022)
Paul Torday Memorial Prize (Winner — 2023)
HWA Crown Awards (Longlist — Debut — 2023)
Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize (Shortlist — Shortlist — 2022)
Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year (Debut Fiction — 2022)
LibraryReads (Monthly Pick — April 2022)
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