Honestly, I felt a superlative affection for almost every character in this book and continued to think about them-and root for them-long after I finished reading. This is a book that is complicit with its reader and takes care of her, allowing her to walk away from it feeling optimistic about being a person in the world.Īnd did I mention Six-Thirty? He’s one of the best fictional dogs I’ve ever encountered. Lessons in Chemistry is, in addition to being a very funny novel, refreshingly earnest, a word I use carefully and as a high compliment. But most of all I loved it because reading it made me feel good, hopeful even. Why did I love this book? It’s shrewd and vibrant and carefully plotted. (Also, cooking! And television! And teaching dogs how to read!)
So I was especially grateful to find myself in the world of Elizabeth Zott and Lessons in Chemistry, a cheerful, cinematic, whip-smart novel about finding one’s family and the ongoing fight for gender equality.
Meet the unconventional, uncompromising Elizabeth Zott.I am grateful for books always, but especially lately, these last-well, couple of years now, when all I want is to be elsewhere, doing something interesting in the company of people who make me happy. She's daring them to change the status quo. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn't just teaching women to cook. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Elizabeth's unusual approach to cooking ('combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride') proves revolutionary. 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. True chemistry results.īut like science, life is unpredictable. Except for one: Calvin Evans the lonely, brilliant Nobel-prize-nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with-of all things-her mind. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing.īut it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality.
Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here.Ĭhemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. Includes an exclusive author interview with Pandora Sykes.
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