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Book review ‘Lab Girl’ by Hope Jahren

‘Lab Girl,’ by Hope Jahren, Vintage, paperback-2017, 282 pages. One might imagine that no one really needs an autobiography from a bipolar plant geobiologist: one would be mistaken. Hope Jahren’s memoir begins in her father’s lab and continues with a stoic walk in small town Minnesota. As her foot hits the icy pavement, a world …

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