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Goodbye, vitamin by rachel khong is a touching gem of a novel about family, friendship, and alzheimers disease with an added touch of laughter, sadness, and love. When the novel opens in december, ruth has recently separated from her unfaithful fiance. July 11, 2017 former lucky peach executive editor khong all about eggs. Khong writes her debut novel in this spirit of return. A novel having great arrangement in word and layout, so you will not really feel uninterested in reading. In her tender, wellpaced debut novel, which spans ruths year at home, khong writes heartbreaking family drama with charm, perfect prose, and deadpan humor. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Goodbye, vitamin book by rachel khong official publisher. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Rachel khongs novel, written in diary format, follows the eccentric thoughts of newly single ruth over the course of a year. At once gutwrenching and deeply soothing, this bittersweet first novel uses an anthropological focus on eating to tell the story of 30yearold ruth and the year she moves back home to care for her father, whos recently been diagnosed with. Jul 10, 2017 the mechanics and metaphysics of recollection are also an obsessive preoccupation for ruth, the narrator of khongs wonderful first novel, goodbye, vitamin.
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Rachel khong author rachel khong grew up in southern california and holds degrees from yale university and the university of florida. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in american short fiction, the believer, pitchfork, village voice and lucky peach. Rachel khong s first novel sneaks up on you just like life. With a title like goodbye, vitamin, humor is to be expected. Goodbye, vitamin is the wry, beautifully observed story of a woman at a crossroads, as ruth and her friends attempt to shore up her fathers career. Her touch is light despite the gravity of her subject.
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