![]() ![]() 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 one's footing in this life. ![]() ![]() But as Ruth's father's condition intensifies, the comedy in her situation takes hold, gently transforming all her grief. ![]() Ruth's mother, meanwhile, is lucidly erratic. Her father, a prominent history professor, is losing his memory and is only erratically lucid. 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.įreshly disengaged from her fiancé 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 parents' home to find that situation more complicated than she'd realized. Kudos for this delectable take on familial devotion."- NPR One of those rare books that is both devastating and light-hearted, heartfelt, and joyful. Told in a diary format over the year that Ruth spends at home, Goodbye, Vitamin is a quietly brilliant disquisition on family, relationships and adulthood, told in prose that is so startling. 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.- Doree Shafrir, The New York Times Book Review 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 IndependentĪ quietly brilliant disquisition. ![]()
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