![]() ![]() But when Calvin dies, Elizabeth is left as a single (unwed!) mom, and sexism continue to impede her ability to earn money or move forward in the world. ![]() ![]() So she ends up as a researcher at a small institute in California, where she unexpectedly falls in love with Calvin Evans, the institute’s brightest and most eccentric researcher. She would be a PhD., except for-well, you know, she’s a woman in science in the 1960s. This is a sad yet hopeful story that made me laugh and cry, and sometimes those are the best.Įlizabeth Zott is a chemist. She’s laser-focused on the unfairness of life-not just in terms of institutional sexism but also the way in which life robs us of the ones we love the most. But Bonnie Garmus is on a mission in this book. It is quite a literary novel, full of narrative tricks and idiosyncrasies and enough contrived character circumstances to make John Irving or Heather O’Neill jealous. My bestie Rebecca lent this to me, and I am glad she did-I don’t think I would have picked it up otherwise, and that would have been my loss. ![]()
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