One was I kind of needed some reassurance that things have gotten better since the 1960s for women. She seems like a chemical element suspended in a different time almost. She - and so much of your book is absolutely chemistry.
SIMON: Tell us about Elizabeth Zott in the early 1960s. But her TV show, "Supper At Six," and what she calls vinegar and salt - acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride - becomes a huge hit in Bonnie Garmus' debut novel, "Lessons In Chemistry." And Bonnie Garmus, who's been a copywriter, creative director and open-water swimmer, joins us now from London. Elizabeth Zott is a chemist who hosts a cooking show because it's the early 1960s and sexism, double standards, outright assault, scientific theft and discrimination all keep her from working as an actual scientist.
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