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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 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

Goodbye Vitamin

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    A Paperback / softback by Rachel Khong

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      Publisher Picador USA
      Published 10 July 2018
      ISBN-13 9781250182555
      978-1250182555
      ISBN-10 1250182557

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 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

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