A review by mishacoleman
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad

4.25

Levi describes it as a micro-history  of a professional chemist,  loosely woven together using chemical elements to guide the stories told. Incidentally, Levi was also an Italian-Jewish Holocaust survivor, a fact that does not dominate the narrative but does cast a shadow throughout.

I worried this would be hard to read as America takes an authoritarian turn, but its emotional honesty paired with a dry humor were much appreciated.