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Goodbye, Vitamin

(2017)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
2017 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (nominee)

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

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 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.

Genre: Literary Fiction

Praise for this book

"Khong is a magician, and we are lucky to fall under her spell at the very beginning of her brilliant writing life." - Lauren Groff

"This novel sneaks up on you - just like life . . . and heartbreak. And love." - Miranda July


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