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REVIEWS: Lab Girl
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Book Companion
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for
Autobiography. An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in
science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a
stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you
see the natural world. Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built
three laboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds,
and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise on plant
life—but it is also so much more. Lab Girl is a book about work,
love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things
come together. It is told through Jahren’s remarkable stories:
about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising
mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his
classroom’s labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science,
and learned to perform lab work done “with both the heart and
the hands”; and about the inevitable disappointments, but also
the triumphs and exhilarating discoveries, of scientific work.
Here is an eloquent demonstration of what can happen when you
find the stamina, passion, and sense of sacrifice needed to make
a life out of what you truly love, as you discover along the way
the person you were meant to be.
Characters: 34. Amazon rating: 4 1/2 stars. Genre:
Non-Fiction/Memoir.
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