Author: Hope Jahren
Genre: Biography, Non-Fiction
Format: Paperback

Description:
Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahrens stories about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classrooms labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and learned to perform lab work done with both the heart and the hands and about the inevitable disappointments, but also the triumphs and exhilarating discoveries, of scientific work.