I couldn’t stop reading this book. Practically inhaled it, which is almost a shame because there’s so much good content to digest; it deserves a second, deeper read. A review won’t do this book justice- it needs to be read, thought about, talked about. The religion, the sexism, the feminism, the deep love, the parenting, the humor, the rowing, the chemistry…it’s got everything a great book should have. Highly recommend.

Short summary: Elizabeth Zott was born in the wrong decade. She’s a brilliant chemist and a woman in the 1950s - not a covalent bond. But she’s got determination and grit, and her dog, Six-Thirty, an unexpected love affair and even less expected child. When she stumbles into hosting a cooking show, her unusually strident-for-a-woman beliefs are put on the air alongside lessons in chemistry. Can she succeed or be sent back to the home where a woman belongs?

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