Lessons in Chemistry's Bonnie Garmus: 'I'm furious about Roe v Wade. But we are not defeated'. 📚 The author talks about becoming a literary star at 64, workplace sexism, and her fear and anger about the US removing women’s right to abortion.
Garmus grew up in southern California but has spent the past five years in London, where she’s speaking from today. The book, she says, came from knowing all too well how it feels to be “put down and passed over if you aren’t male”. She started working on it right after coming out of an infuriating meeting she’d had while working with a firm in Seattle.
Garmus “always wanted to be a writer”, producing her first story at the age of five, about – to Elizabeth Zott’s dismay no doubt – a princess. “My children found it in our basement,” she says, “and mocked me mercilessly.” Her dad was a scientist studying insects, a job that moved the family around the country.
“The idea that a woman has no control over her own body is one of the most ridiculous concepts I’ve ever heard of,” she continues. “I’m furious. My friends in the United States are furious. I have two daughters, and they’re furious. But we are not defeated.” “In the book, there’s a lot about ‘found family’. And that’s one of the reasons why,” says Garmus, referring to adopting. “Also one of our daughters is gay and she has a lot of friends whose families have rejected them because they’re gay or trans or for whatever reason. Just imagining being rejected by your family for something that is biologically normal is tough to see. So I like the idea of found family. Her friends always have family with us.
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