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I don’t read a lot of nonfiction, so this book is honestly not one that I’d normally pick out, but I’m trying to widen the scope of the genres that I read and this book had some great reviews on Goodreads. Plus, the author grew up in small town Minnesota! It’s fun to read about her childhood helping her father in his lab, and walking home all bundled up against the winter weather. I also nodded with understanding when she described a particularly nasty May snowstorm! I’m looking forward to learning more about the world of science and the travels that the author takes through the course of her work.
From Goodreads: “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 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.
Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with a brilliant, wounded man named Bill, who becomes her lab partner and best friend. Their sometimes rogue adventures in science take them from the Midwest across the United States and back again, over the Atlantic to the ever-light skies of the North Pole and to tropical Hawaii, where she and her lab currently make their home. ”