
Lab Girl is a book about work & about love & the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together It is told through Jahren's remarkable stories about the discoveries she has made in her lab as well as her struggle to get there; about her childhood playing in her father's laboratory; about how lab work became a sanctuary for both her heart & her hands; about Bill the brilliant wounded man who became her loyal colleague & best friend; about their field trips
- sometimes authorised sometimes very much not
- that took them from the Midwest across the USA to Norway & to Ireland from the pale skies of North Pole to tropical Hawaii; & about her constant striving to do & be her best & her unswerving dedication to her life's work Visceral intimate gloriously candid & sometimes extremely funny Jahren's descriptions of her work her intense relationship with the plants seeds & soil she studies & her insights on nature enliven every page of this thrilling book In Lab Girl we see anew the complicated power of the natural world & the power that can come from facing with bravery & conviction the challenge of discovering who you are