Summary Of Bonnie Garmuss Lessons In Chemistry

Buy now to get the main key ideas from Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry Lessons in Chemistry (2022) tells the story of Elizabeth Zott, a chemist who becomes an unexpected TV star with her cooking show “Supper at Six” in 1961. After sexual harassment derails her academic career, Elizabeth takes a lowly job at Hastings Research Institute. She falls in love with Calvin Evans, a scientist as quirky as he is brilliant. Their time together is magical, but Calvin dies in a tragic accident. Months later, Elizabeth gives birth to their daughter. When Hastings fires her for being an unwed mother, Elizabeth finds comfort in her precocious child and her equally precocious dog, Six-Thirty. Soon after, she lucks into hosting “Supper at Six.” Through the TV show, she challenges gender norms, empowering women; in her own life, she comes to understand what really makes a family. Lessons in Chemistry, the best-selling first novel by Bonnie Garmus, was made into a TV mini-series in 2023.