A review by alexafuson
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

inspiring reflective slow-paced
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

This was a empowering story about feminism that claims the choices women make should be honored and respected. In many books and movies that focus on a career woman, women who work in the home are discredited as weak, unintelligent, and uninteresting. This book totally subverts that by showing the systemic barriers in the 1950s-60s that women faced, and many of those same issues still exist today. There were parts of this book that felt very unrealistic (namely, 6:30), but even those parts fit in with the story very well. In this book, women made decisions that others didn’t like. Women were bitches. Women fought for what they deserved. And because of that, women made history. 

Look up trigger warnings, and take the description with a grain of sodium chloride. There are multiple graphic descriptions of sexual assault, and it is not as lighthearted as the descriptions suggests. 
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