And it is interspersed with these small moments of joy, often when Ruth recognizes some moment of shared humanity with acquaintances or strangers, or as she allows herself. 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. Throughout, GOODBYE, VITAMIN explores the contrast between the acute heartache of a romantic relationship’s end and the chronic heartache of losing a loved one to dementia. At Christmas, her mother begs her to stay on and help. 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 'A beautifully written coming-of-age debut, dreamy and funny. Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Huffington Post, Nylon, Entertainment Weekly.

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