Too thoughtful to be called chick lit. Too funny to be a treatise on feminist awakening in the '50s and '60s. Let's just say the humor is used to expose the hypocrisy and irrational sexism of that period. Elizabeth Zott is a brilliant chemist in spite of a spotty educational path and abuse by her male colleagues. Through workplace theft and then "out on the town" vomit, she meets her soulmate, brilliant chemist Calvin Evans. They make chemistry and baby Madeline, aka Mad. Because someone steals Mad's much superior lunches, Elizabeth ends up on a TV food program that is mostly a chemistry lesson but really a wakeup call to the hibernating intelligence of the women who watch. Oh and there is a dog named six-thirty who knows about 900 words and everything about humans. An unlikely but you-wish-it-worked-like this read.
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