Date Read: May 18
Author: Catherine Chung
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 5/5
Growing up, Katherine is entranced by the language of mathematics and constantly searching for answers about her family and her past. She is consumed by ambition and the search for love, and discovers that it might not be possible for a female mathematician to have both. An amazing book, told in circles of both the present and future and eventually bringing together Katherine’s past and the math that she loves.
I’ve heard it said that you can judge a society by how it treats the lowest of its members. Let me say now, I’ve often been dismayed at how we treat our best.
– The Tenth Muse
Zoey's Year in Books 2020 