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n nNamed 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 Independentn nA quietly brilliant disquisition . . . told in prose that is so startling in its spare beauty that I found myself thinking about Khongs turns of phrase for days after I finished reading.--Doree Shafrir, The New York Times Book Reviewn nOne of those rare books that is both devastating and light-hearted, heartfelt, and joyful. . . . Dont miss it.--BuzzFeedn nHello, Rachel Khong. Kudos for this delectable take on familial devotion.--NPRn nHer life at a crossroads, a young woman goes home again in this funny and inescapably moving debut from a wonderfully original new literary voice.n nFreshly disengaged from her fianc 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 shed realized. Her father, a prominent history professor, is losing his memory and is only erratically lucid. Ruths mother, meanwhile, is lucidly erratic. But as Ruths fathers condition intensifies, the comedy in her situation takes hold, gently transforming all her grief. n nTold 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 ones footing in this life.n
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