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    Chemistry: A novel
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    Chemistry: A novel

    Written by Weike Wang

    Narrated by Julia Whelan

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    About this audiobook

    Named a "Most Anticipated Novel of 2017" by Entertainment Weekly, The Millions,  and Bustle 

    A luminous coming-of-age novel about a young female scientist who must recalibrate her life when her academic career goes off track; perfect for readers of Lab Girl and Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Told You.     

    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. But there's another, nonscientific question looming: the marriage proposal from her devoted boyfriend, a fellow scientist, whose path through academia has been relatively free of obstacles, and with whom she can't make a life before finding success on her own. Eventually, the pressure mounts so high that she must leave everything she thought she knew about her future, and herself, behind. And for the first time, she's confronted with a question she won't find the answer to in a textbook: 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. Taking us deep inside her scattered, searching mind, here is a brilliant new literary voice that astutely juxtaposes the elegance of science, the anxieties of finding a place in the world, and the sacrifices made for love and family.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 23, 2017
    ISBN9781524781354
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    • 5/5
      Fantastic and original. A masterpiece of compression. The audiobook is really, really good.
    • 5/5
      Such a beautiful simple story, told in a delicate intelligent way. This is modern everyday life/thoughts, but when was life ever anything more?