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A review by ohthatmomglow
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
5.0
The book took me a bit to get into, but once I felt like I understood the characters I just couldn't stop. I had fallen in love with all of them.... well, most of them. There are, of course, many characters to despise in a book about the struggles of women in the 1950s/60s. By the book's end, I was enraptured by Elizabeth and Mad and Harriet and Walter. They are all so different but they just work together so well.
I saw in the book's description that it was listed as "laugh-out-loud funny" and I'd just like to warn that there are several traumatic events within the book. I was a bit taken aback by how sad and gut-wrenching it was at times for a book declared laugh-out-loud funny. There are definitely moments where I cackled and giggled but the overall tone is not hilarity and humor, it is raw and poignant but yet hopeful.
I saw in the book's description that it was listed as "laugh-out-loud funny" and I'd just like to warn that there are several traumatic events within the book. I was a bit taken aback by how sad and gut-wrenching it was at times for a book declared laugh-out-loud funny. There are definitely moments where I cackled and giggled but the overall tone is not hilarity and humor, it is raw and poignant but yet hopeful.