First Line Friday – Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmas

It’s First Line Friday! Hosted by Reading Is My Superpower, you write the first line of the book you are currently reading.

I am currently reading Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmas:

Book Description From Goodreads:

“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.”

FIRST LINE:

“Back in 1961, when women wore shirtwaist dresses and joined garden clubs and drove legions of children around in seatbelt less cars without giving it a second thought; back before anyone knew there’d even be a sixties movement, much less one that it’s participants would spend the next sixty years chronicling; back when the big wars were over and the secret wars had begun and people were starting to think fresh and believe everything was possible, the thirty year old mother of Madeline Zott rose before dawn every morning and felt certain of just one thing: her life was over.”

Quite a lengthy beginning, but one that I think sets the time period well.

Would you read on?

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