Excerpt from Chemistry | Penguin Random House Canada
The luminous, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning debut novel from an important new voice in fiction: Chemistry follows a young Chinese American woman who must discover what she really wants before her life can truly begin.
Part I The boy asks the girl a question. It is a question of marriage. Ask me again tomorrow, she says, and he says, That’s not how this works. Diamond is no longer the hardest mineral known to man. New Scientist reports that lonsdaleite is. Lonsdaleite is 58 percent harder than diamond and forms only when meteorites smash themselves into Earth. ••• The lab mate says to make a list of pros and cons. Write it all down, prove it to yourself. She then nods sympathetically and pats me on the arm. The lab mate is a solver of hard problems. Her desk is next to mine but is neater and more…
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