About the author
Bonnie Garmus is an American novelist and former copywriter. Her debut, Lessons in Chemistry, uses the life of a chemist in the 1950s and 1960s to examine who is permitted to be brilliant, authoritative, angry, and publicly heard.
Garmus moves between laboratory politics, family history, television production, and the stubborn intelligence of Elizabeth's dog, Six-Thirty. The novel's comedy comes from people underestimating Elizabeth and discovering that she has heard exactly what they said.
Where to start
Start with Lessons in Chemistry. A chemist pushed out of the laboratory turns a television cooking show into an unexpected classroom.
