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Book SynopsisWinner 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 fiancé 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 si
