Misfit teen, absent dad, dead mom, quirky friends, jerky ex the main character is hung up on - check. We chem nerds are used to seeing formulas everywhere, and from the get-go, this book seemed like it had all the right ingredients. She works at the same lab as her recently-departed mother, and she has a couple of friends there - Yael and Kyle - which is good, because her boyfriend Whit breaks up with her as the book opens. He never would have actually let me apply there.) Maya lives with her athletic, mostly-absent father, Kirk. (MIT's respectable enough - I toured the campus with my family back in the day - but Dad's a Georgia Tech alum. Seventeen-year-old Maya Leschinsky is interning at MIT the summer before her freshman year there. Finally! A super nerdy female main character I can connect with! And a plot with a romantic twist? Fun! Sign me up! I may be a writer and performer now, but I graduated from USC with a degree in chemistry - so when Meredith Goldstein's Chemistry Lessons popped up on my radar, I was immediately intrigued. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Chemistry Lessons Author Meredith Goldstein
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