“If I could have dreamed it,” author Bonnie Garmus said, “I wouldn’t have dreamed it quite this big.”
Speaking on the phone from her home in London, the 65-year-old former Seattleite is living a writer’s dream. Her acclaimed debut novel “Lessons in Chemistry,” published last spring, has spent 41 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list for hardcover fiction, as of the March 5 list, and recently sold its 1 millionth copy in all formats.
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