Let's Talk About Books: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Join Let's Talk About Books, a monthly book club that is currently meeting via Zoom.  

The meeting is free and open to everyone interested, whether they have read the book or not.

For our April meeting, we will be reading Lesson in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus with the hour-long discussion being led by Janet Berger.  Copies are available at the main desk for checkout.  Copies of the eBook are available on Libby.

Synopsis:

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 (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) 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.  
Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.

A copy of the meeting's link will go out the Monday leading up to the event.  Another email with the meeting's link will also go out the Friday morning of the event.