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. Then, the final goodbye for Teemu Pukki at. 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.įreshly 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. Josh Sargent representing Norwich at the World Cup in Qatar with the USMNT was magic, too, seeing him join an exclusive club of Norwich players to do so. Kudos for this delectable take on familial devotion."-NPR "One of those rare books that is both devastating and light-hearted, heartfelt, and joyful. 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 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
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