Goodbye, Vitamin: A Novel

Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR; O, The Oprah Magazine; Vogue; San Francisco Chronicle; Esquire; Huffington Post; Nylon; Entertainment Weekly; BuzzFeed; Booklist; and The Independent "A quietly brilliant disquisition . . . told in prose that is so startling in its spare beauty that I found myself thinking about Khong's turns of phrase for days after I finished reading."ùDoree Shafrir, The New York Times Book Review "One of those rare books that is both devastating and light-hearted, heartfelt, and joyful. . . . Don't miss it."ùBuzzFeed ôHello, Rachel Khong. Kudos for this delectable take on familial devotion.öùNPR Her life at a crossroads, a young woman goes home again in this funny and inescapably moving debut from a wonderfully original new literary voice. Freshly disengaged from her fianc? and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, thirty-year-old Ruth quits her job, leaves town and arrives at her parentsÆ home to find that situation more complicated than she'd realized. Her father, a prominent history professor, is losing his memory and is only erratically lucid. RuthÆs mother, meanwhile, is lucidly erratic. But as Ruth's fatherÆs condition intensifies, the comedy in her situation takes hold, gently transforming all her grief. Told in captivating glimpses and drawn from a deep well of insight, humor, and unexpected tenderness, Goodbye, Vitamin pilots through the loss, love, and absurdity of finding oneÆs footing in this life.

• | Author: Rachel Khong
• | Publisher: Picador
• | Publication Date: Jul 10, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 208 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 1250182557
• | ISBN-13: 9781250182555