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Goodbye, Vitamin - Paperback

by Rachel Khong
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Availability:In StockContributor:Rachel KhongPublish date:2018-07-10Pages:208
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250182555ISBN-10:1250182557UPC:9781250182555Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Humorous, WomenSize:8.20 x 5.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.45Product ID:SC8QE1ADBX

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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250182555ISBN-10:1250182557UPC:9781250182555Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Humorous, WomenSize:8.20 x 5.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.45Product ID:SC8QE1ADBX
Rachel Khong grew up in Southern California and holds degrees from Yale University and the University of Florida. From 2011 to 2016, she was the managing editor then executive editor of Lucky Peach magazine. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Tin House, Buzzfeed, Joyland, American Short Fiction, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Believer, and California Sunday. Goodbye, Vitamin is her debut novel. She lives in San Francisco.
Publisher: Picador USA

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