Newly disengaged from her fiancé, 30-year-old Ruth quits her job, leaves town, & arrives at her parents’ home to find that situation more complicated than she thought.
'A beautifully written debut, dreamy and funny. Goodbye, Vitamin Rachel Khong JThe following is from Rachel Khong’s novel, Goodbye, Vitamin. Goodbye, Vitamin is the wry, beautifully observed story of a woman at a crossroads, as Ruth and her friends attempt to shore up her father's career she and her mother obsess over the ambiguous health benefits – in the absence of a cure – of dried jellyfish supplements and vitamin pills and they all try to forge a new relationship with the brilliant, childlike, irascible man her father has become. The novel has as many jokes as it does heartaches. Her touch is light despite the gravity of her subject. At Christmas, her mother begs her to stay on and help. Goodbye, Vitamin chronicles Ruth’s attempt to make space for inter- and intrapersonal tenderness. Ruth is thirty and her life is falling apart: she and her fiancé are moving house, but he's moving out to live with another woman her career is going nowhere and then she learns that her father, a history professor beloved by his students, has Alzheimer's. A million small, human and often deeply funny details gather force to tell a tale that is ultimately, incredibly poignant' Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man 'Khong's first novel sneaks up on you – just like life, illness and heartbreak. Brilliant' Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies An O: the Oprah Magazine and Best Book of 2017
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