Fourth Wednesday Book Club: Lessons in Chemistry

Fourth Wednesday Book Club: Lessons in Chemistry

Please join us to discuss Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your 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. Her 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.

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