Khong Rachel - Goodbye Vitamin A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 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 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.
Title: Goodbye Vitamin A Novel
Author(s): Khong Rachel
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250182555
Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 7/10/2018
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction