My book club chose Weike Wang's new book for our next read, so I wanted to revisit Chemistry. I thought I had read it, but now realize that I took it out but never read it. She is a very gifted author!
This book is so clever; her language is punchy, smart and very funny! Some of her observations are just so spot on. Here's the review on Amazon:
"Three years into her graduate studies at a demanding Boston university, the unnamed narrator of this nimbly wry, concise debut finds her one-time love for chemistry is more hypothesis than reality. She's tormented by her failed research--and reminded of her delays by her peers, her advisor, and most of all by her Chinese parents, who have always expected nothing short of excellence from her throughout her life. "
Her issue:
"What do I really want? Over the next two years, this winningly flawed, disarmingly insightful heroine learns the formulas and equations for a different kind of chemistry--one in which the reactions can't be quantified, measured, and analyzed; one that can be studied only in the mysterious language of the heart."
