June Book Club - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Synopsis: 

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact,  Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such  thing as an average  woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings  Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except  for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated  grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True  chemistry results.  But like science, life is unpredictable.  Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a  single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking  show Supper at Six.  Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic  acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her  following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out,  Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to  change the status quo.   Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.