![]() ![]() “But sitting there that day, I really felt like she was there saying, “You know, here’s what I would have said. In a recent video interview, Garmus explained that Zott had been a minor character in another book she had shelved. I just thought, “How many more times will this happen in my lifetime?” “And he presented everything I had just said. ![]() “Then suddenly, a few minutes later a man said, “Well, I have an idea,” recalls Garmus, who has worked as a copywriter and creative director. Garmus, who grew up in Riverside before moving to Bogotá, Colombia at 13, just needed to channel her inner Zott during a strategy meeting at a technology company where Garmus’s ideas were met with silence by the male attendees. ![]() When Bonnie Garmus, 64, began her debut novel, she didn’t imagine it would make the New York Times spring reading list or be optioned for an Apple TV+ series starring Academy Award winner Brie Larson. After losing her science job, Zott reluctantly hosts a cooking show called “Supper at Six.” But rather than present as a perky, pretty hostess, Zott rattles the network and goes off script, teaching the chemistry of cooking and empowering her mostly female audience to view themselves differently. In “Lessons in Chemistry,” Elizabeth Zott is a brilliant young chemist and single parent who comes up against sexism and abuse in academia and the workplace in the 1950s and 1960s. ![]()
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