LAB GIRL is a collection of stories detailing acclaimed scientist, Hope Jahren’s childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and father, how she found sanctuary in science and learned to perform lab work done “with both the heart and the hands”, the inevitable disappointments, but also the triumphs and exhilarating discoveries of scientific work. At the core of the book is her relationship with Bill, a brilliant and wounded man who becomes her lab partner and best friend. Their adventures in science take them from the Midwest across the US and back again, over the Atlantic to the North Pole and tropical Hawaii, where she and her lab currently make their home.