By Bonnie Garmus
Here we have the book which has finally broken me out of my unplanned, unwanted and probably unhealthy break from this blog. 12th Class made my uncomplicated life slightly less so but lucky it's now ended and so will the words starting with un-, unemployment.
I will admit that I unfairly disagreed to read this book just because it was a romantic book. After all, why should I leave my murder mysteries for something "slow and simple". I was wrong. It's not a slow book from any frame of reference. As for simple, it's about a women scientist in the early 1960s who has a child out of wedlock and becomes a celebrity cook chemist teaching other women the science of food, so really not that either
The way she was treated by her fellow (although they disagreed with the whole fellow part) scientists (or the scientist part for that matter), could possibly make you want to rip your hair out. Similar to how Elizabeth Zott finds it challenging to explain that her dog is busy as he needs to pick up her daughter from school, you too might struggle to explain how this is the most triggering and yet touching book you have ever read.
Spoiler alert, it's a happy ending.
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