By Mariam Nooristani Lessons in Chemistry Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus is a compelling story about a struggling chemist named Elizabeth Zott. Zott, a fiercely independent individual, finds herself struggling in a man’s world. Zott is rational and struggles to change the status quo in the science and TV industry in the early nineteen sixties. Zott is easy to fall in love with on paper Zott is funny, zippy, and intelligent. Ultimately her characterization is overproduced.  The first seven chapters of the novel illustrate Elizabeth Zott as the archetypical trail-blazing pioneer, a Hollywood leading lady in the nineteen fifties and sixties. Lessons in Chemistry maintains the same type…