But there is also a very sweet dog, and a precocious child, and people who care for others. The book isn’t all an upward trajectory there are some very dark moments. And she works to help other women believe in themselves, and change their lives. She is brilliant, and she is stymied at every turn by men and women who feel threatened by her.īut there are also men who believe in her, and support her, and women who believe in her, and support her. Especially the focus of the book, Elizabeth Zott. They don’t exist for us to project our feelings onto - they are their own people, who are flawed and who experience things in life that are not fair. The main characters are not ‘likeable’ but they aren’t not likeable. I didn’t want to put it down, and was annoyed when I had to do things like get off the bus, or go to sleep, because that meant I wasn’t able to keep reading. It’s nearly 400 pages and I read it in two days. But my goodness, I want to use all of them. I don’t tend to use a lot of trite expressions in my book reviews. “Courage is the root of change - and change is what we’re chemically designed to do.” “…and one who went along because she, like so many other women, assumed that downgrading someone of her own sex would somehow lift her in the estimation of her male superiors.” This is the story of her life, and how it intertwines with others. People who like a really well-plotted, well-written books that have some truly unexpected moments.Įlizabeth Zott is a chemist in the 1950s and 1960s, when women aren’t really allowed to be.
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