Goodbye, vitamin
Khong, Rachel, 1985-2017
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Ruth is 30 and her life is falling apart: she and her fiancé are moving house, but he's moving out to live with another woman; her career is going nowhere; and then she learns that her father, a history professor beloved by his students, has Alzheimer's. At Christmas, her mother begs her to stay on and help - for a year. 'Goodbye, Vitamin' is the wry, beautifully observed story of that year, as Ruth and her friends attempt to shore up her father's career, she and her mother obsess over the ambiguous health benefits - in the absence of a cure - of dried jellyfish supplements and vitamin pills, and they all try to forge a new relationship with the brilliant, childlike, irascible, sweet old man her father has become.
Main title:
Goodbye, vitamin / Rachel Khong.
Author:
Khong, Rachel, 1985-, author
Imprint:
London : Scribner, 2017.
Collation:
198 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781471147234 (hbk)9781471147258 (ebook)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
BRN:
251775
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