If it hadn’t been for a really bad day at work, Bonnie Garmus may never have written her hit novel Lessons in Chemistry. She’d been in a meeting where all her ideas were ignored, then a male colleague stole those ideas and took credit for them.
It wasn’t the first time she had experienced sexism, but still she was furious.
“As I was walking back to my desk, the frustration in me was overwhelming,” recalls Bonnie, now 67. “I started thinkingBelieve it or not, that first chapter is unchanged, minus one sentence. It’s exactly what I wrote.”
