Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong

Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong

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

Winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for First Fiction

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

One of those rare books that is both devastating and light-hearted, heartful and joyful. . . . Don't miss it.--Buzzfeed

Hello, Rachel Khong. Kudos for this delectable take on familial devotion and dementia.--NPR

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 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 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 one's footing in this life.

Rachel Khong is a San Francisco-based writer and editor who like cabbage. She worked as an editor at Lucky Peach magazine from 2011 to 2016. She's the author of the novel Farewell, Vitamin (Henry Holt, 2017) and the editor of Everything About Eggs: Everything We Know About the World's Most Vital Food (Clarkson Potter, 2017). Rachel Khong may be found on Twitter @rachelkhong, Instagram @rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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ISBN 13	9781250109163
ISBN 10	1250109167
Title	Goodbye, Vitamin
Author	Rachel Khong
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Henry Holt & Company
Year published	2017-07-11
Number of pages	208
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