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A review by jess_mango
Chemistry by Weike Wang
4.0
Chemistry is narrated by a young Chinese woman who is going for her PhD at a Boston area college (presumably Harvard since she refers to it as the "best college in the US"). Our narrator is anxious, neurotic, and unsure. She is studying chemistry and works in a lab at the college for an intense professor. She meets her boyfriend at the lab but she is about as unsure of him as she is of her chemistry.
The novel is told in a stream of consciousness style which clearly displays the narrators emotional state. She is clearly highly intelligent and talks about science a lot. She jumps from thought to thought...memory to memory. She shares her issues with her parents and of growing up as one of the only Asian kids in her grammar school class.
This is a good look inside a stressed out mind. I will keep my eye out for other books by this author.
The novel is told in a stream of consciousness style which clearly displays the narrators emotional state. She is clearly highly intelligent and talks about science a lot. She jumps from thought to thought...memory to memory. She shares her issues with her parents and of growing up as one of the only Asian kids in her grammar school class.
This is a good look inside a stressed out mind. I will keep my eye out for other books by this author.