Title: Chemistry
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?
Subjects: Women graduate students, Chinese, Fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, women, Fiction, romance, contemporary, Chinese americans, fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Contemporary Women, FICTION / Asian American
Places: United States