![]() ![]() ![]() We witness her rise and fall in the male-dominated scientific world of the 1950s, as she does her best to stand against the patriarchy and sexism that define every layer of America at that time. From there, we journey a few years into her past and she how she ended up a household name, largely against her will. You see, Elizabeth is not a television personality she’s a chemist, and she hates where she’s ended up. She’s incredibly famous, and she hates every single minute of it. When we meet Elizabeth Zott in 1961, she is a single mother and the host of the cooking show that has taken America by storm. This is a feminist manifesto of the highest, most egalitarian caliber, while also telling a wonderfully compelling story with even more compelling characters. While very cute, it doesn’t do justice to the story it contains, conveying something similar in feel to a rom-com instead of what the cover truly hides, which is an empowering historical fiction novel that is by turns heart-wrenching and hilarious. Lessons in Chemistry was so much better than I anticipated, even after hearing it so lauded by so many readers. ![]()
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