19 October 2020
It wasn't what people were talking about late into the evening at the Frankfurter Hof. It didn't come up over drinks at the Hessischer Hof. No one was whispering about it between meetings in the window-less rights center at the show. Instead, during this year's virtual Frankfurt Book FairWorld's largest trade fair for books; held annually mid-October at Frankfurt Trade Fair, Germany; First three days exclusively for trade visitors; general public can attend last two., Bonnie Garmus's debut novel, Lessons in Chemistry, was discussed over email, on the phone and via Zoom. None of this, however, stopped it from becoming what is arguably the book of this year's event.
