Goodbye, Vitamin

By Rachel Khong

An&#160;O: the Oprah Magazine&#160;and Amazon.com Best Book of 2017 &#39;Khong is a magician ... Brilliant&#39; Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies ‘Khong’s first novel sneaks up on you – just like life, illness and heartbreak. And love. 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 ManRuth is thirty and her life is falling apart: she and her fianc&#233; are moving house, but&#160;he&#39;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. At Christmas, her mother begs her to stay on and help. For a year.Goodbye, Vitamin&#160;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;&#160;she and her mother obsess over the ambiguous health benefits – in the absence of a cure – of dried jellyfish supplements and vitamin pills;&#160;and they all try to forge a new relationship with the brilliant, childlike, irascible man her father has become. &#39;A beautifully written&#160;debut, dreamy and funny ... flawless&#39;&#160;Independent ?&#39;Biting, funny and poignant and makes you wish you’d thought of writing it first&#39;&#160;Stylist,&#160;&#39;50 Unmissable Books&#39; &#39;Like a chain of fairy lights in the darkness&#39; Financial Times &#39;One of the funniest elegiac novels I have ever read&#39;&#160;David Leavitt, author of&#160;The Lost Language of Cranes

An O: the Oprah Magazine and Amazon.com Best Book of 2017 'Khong is a magician ... Brilliant' Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies ‘Khong’s first novel sneaks up on you – just like life, illness and heartbreak. And love. A million small,

By Rachel Khong

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