Chemistry
Subtitle: a novel
By: Weike Wang
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; Knopf
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781524731748
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Women graduate students; Chinese; Fiction
Description: "A novel about a young Chinese woman whose graduate studies in chemistry go off track and lead her to discover the truths about her goals and desires"--

Three years into her graduate studies at a demanding Boston university, our unnamed narrator finds her one-time love for chemistry is more hypothesis than reality. Tormented by her failed research, there's another, nonscientific question looming: the marriage proposal from a fellow scientist, whose path through academia has been relatively free of obstacles, and with whom she can't make a life before finding success on her own. For the first time, she's confronted with a question she won't find the answer to in a textbook: What do I really want?
Notes: "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.