We’re made aware of her plight as a single mother and the general contours of her personal life, at which point the author reels time back by a decade or so, taking us to the 1950s, where her life was quite different.īefore turning into a rising star, Elizabeth was a chemist, which meant she was destined to be one of the sole women working in a field dominated by men. The novel begins by introducing us to Elizabeth, living in 1960s California, the star of a revolutionary cooking show taking the country by storm, garnering supporters left and right. Though some of us might feel like we live in progressive enough parts of the world, it’s always important to remember things were fairly different not so long ago, as they were for Elizabeth Zott, the protagonist in Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. Living as a woman in a man’s world presents difficulties which I believe everyone can understand and should be made aware of, even if roughly half the humans on this planet will never actually experience them.
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