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Goodbye, Vitamin: A Novel

By Rachel Khong

Goodbye, Vitamin: A Novel Contemporary literature

Goodbye, Vitamin: A Novel

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Winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for First Fiction 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."-Doree Shafrir, The New York Times Book Review 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 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. Her father, a prominent history professor, is losing his memory and is only erratically lucid. Ruth's mother, meanwhile, is lucidly erratic. But as Ruth's father's condition intensifies, the comedy in her situation takes hold, gently transforming 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 one's footing in this life.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
208
Release Date:
2018-07-10
Publication Date:
2018-07-10
Publisher:
Holt
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
1250182557
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
1050 g
Height:
20.8 cm
Width:
13.7 cm
Thickness:
1.2 cm
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