The joy of Bonnie Garmus' 2022 bestseller Lessons in Chemistry has less to do with its ideas than how she presents them. The novel's central tenet — that women have long been overlooked and mistreated ...

Set in Nazi-occupied France in 1942, the story begins when a young French Jew named Reza, the son of a Belgian rabbi, is captured by the Germans and forced into a truck on its way to a concentration ...