02950cam a2200445 i 4500 681330210 TxAuBib 20230302120000.0 220328s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021008194 9780385547345 hardcover 038554734X hardcover 9780593314487 trade paperback 0593314484 trade paperback (OCoLC)1306070358 TXKPL eng rda TXKPL TxAuBib rda Garmus, Bonnie. Lessons in chemistry / Bonnie Garmus. First edition. New York : Doubleday, [2022] ©2022. 390 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Good Morning America Book Club"--Cover. A must-read debut novel! Meet Elizabeth Zott: a one-of-a-kind scientist in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the star of a beloved TV cooking show. "It's the world versus Elizabeth Zott, an extraordinary woman determined to live on her own terms, and I had no trouble choosing a side.... A page-turning and highly satisfying tale: zippy, zesty, and Zotty." --Maggie Shipstead, best-selling author of Great Circle 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. 20230302. Women scientists Fiction. Single mothers Fiction. Television cooking shows Fiction. Sex role Fiction. Sexism Fiction. Nineteen sixties Fiction. California Fiction. Historical fiction. lcgft Humorous fiction. lcgft Fiction. lcgft TXKPL