Ruth, who has fond memories of her parents, especially her father, had been avoiding visiting home so she doesn’t have to confront the reality of his ailing health and her parents’ declining marriage. As a result of his Alzheimer’s he is no longer welcome at the university where he worked as a beloved professor. During her Christmas visit, Ruth’s mother requests her to come stay for a year and help with her father’s declining health. She lives in San Francisco.Ruth is thirty and recently disengaged from the man she thought she’d marry (as they pack up to move to a new home, he packs his things separately and tells her at the very end that he’s breaking up with her and moving to live with another woman). Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Tin House, Buzzfeed, Joyland, American Short Fiction, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Believer, and California Sunday. From 2011 to 2016, she was the managing editor then executive editor of Lucky Peach magazine. About the Author: Rachel Khong grew up in Southern California and holds degrees from Yale University and the University of Florida. 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. But as Ruth's father's condition intensifies, the comedy in her situation takes hold, gently transforming all her grief. Ruth's mother, meanwhile, is lucidly erratic. Her father, a prominent history professor, is losing his memory and is only erratically lucid. 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.

Kudos for this delectable take on familial devotion.'- 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.

Don't miss it.- BuzzFeed 'Hello, Rachel Khong. 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, heartfelt, and joyful. 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.

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