Lessons in Chemistry: The multi-million-copy bestseller

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Her blunt and honest comments about marriage, religion, and society's norms will be considered rebellious and unconventional.

Her passion apparently is abiogenesis, to which actual scientists dedicate their entire academic careers solely, yet she also knows food science (an entirely different course of study) and can also teach herself how to row solely by reading physics textbooks (another entirely different course of study).An insightful, part tear-jerker, truly hilarious at times work with more than enough charisma to make you want to be the best version of yourself? Elizabeth Zott has a very strong sense of self, and she doesn't allow people to talk her into things. Did I need to read details of a man who masturbates and flings pubic hairs across the room, leaving behind his sticky porn magazines for his wife to clean up?

The challenges Zott faces, such as being fired for being pregnant and her dire financial circumstances has her becoming an unlikely, reluctant and uncompromising star, dressed in a lab coat, with her popular TV cooking show, Supper at Six, focusing on the chemistry of ingredients and recipes, carrying her subversive and radical agenda of making women question and challenge the cultural misogyny and the limitations placed on their lives. I highly recommend this novel to EVERYONE, especially if you are a woman and have ever been looked down upon simply because you are female! One major scene and plot point deals with sexual assault, and I just wish it hadn’t gone allllllll the way there. The second half was ever more ludicrous, and not really funny or feminist, as it descended to sentimental and largely predictable mush. Her male colleagues cannot get past the fact that she's a woman, and treat her more as a secretary and doormat, acknowledging her only long enough to steal her work.I’ll definitely be tuning in when it debuts, but personally I hope it softens the novel’s sharp edges a bit. Lessons in Chemistry is a breath of fresh air - a witty, propulsive, and refreshingly hopeful novel populated with singular characters. There is also no mention of any characters of color in this story, but that doesn't stop the author from comparing being a housewife to SLAVERY and including the daughter reading about the Congo cannibals to other-ize people of African descent. I get that she is supposed to be super intelligent and 'quirky' but she doesn't feel like a real person for much of the book, there is nothing to connect to. SOMEHOW, she has agreed to host a “cooking show” on TV-though she insists that her show is about Chemistry!

The whole book is packed with clichés, caricatures, and coincidences, but they’re most egregious in the final chapters. Elizabeth's unusual approach to cooking ("combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride") proves revolutionary. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. I don’t need a lecture and I don’t need to be repeatedly hit over the head on relevant social issues. So this book is a white liberal's dream: a woman blithely advocating gender and racial equality in a book with no characters of colour, where structural prejudice falls away if you're smart and correct and righteous enough.During this 'hilarious' story, there is a brutal rape in chapter 3, death of a spouse, implied paedaphilia, abuse, abandonment, bullying, a second sexual assault and sexism. She has her supporting producer, Walter Pine, who believed in her enough to give her a chance on TV while raising his daughter by himself.

She's so unique, different, extraordinary, visionary, extremely quirky, odd, straightforward, honest, a real feminist, intelligent, intellectual, fighter, survivor, and a brilliant scientist who is brave enough to fight for her rights and her loved ones against mansplaining, inequality, abuse, and humiliation!one - gender pay gaps, stay-at-home mothers not being appreciated, women in STEM, working women, sexual harassment and the whole gamut of issues. Also don't get me started about her daughter and how intelligent and advanced she was at a ridiculously young age. They were happy, even though Elizabeth rejected marrying him because she wanted to become an independent scientist without being acknowledged for her husband's contributions.