Goodbye, Vitamin

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[i]Hello, ageing parents. Hello, dementia. Goodbye, vitamin... '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, human and often deeply funny details gather force to tell a tale that is ultimately, incredibly poignant'-- Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man.[/i]Ruth is thirty and her life is falling apart: she and her fiancé are moving house, but he'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 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; she and her mother obsess over the ambiguous health benefits – in the absence of a cure –
of dried jellyfish supplements and vitamin pills; and they all try to
forge a new relationship with the brilliant, childlike, irascible man
her father has become.[i]‘Half stand-up comic, half seismographer of the human heart
… Khong writes with a gentle humour that moves you not only to care for
her characters, but also to care more fervently for the people in your
life’--Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine. 'One of the funniest elegiac novels I have ever read'-- David Leavitt, author of The Lost Language of Cranes.[/i]