Goodbye, Vitamin

A young woman returns home to care for her failing father in this fine, funny, and inescapably touching debut, from an affecting and wonderfully original new literary voice Incredibly poignant . . . Rachel Khong s first novel sneaks up on you just like life . . . and heartbreak. And love. Miranda Ju [...]
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A young woman returns home to care for her failing father in this fine, funny, and inescapably touching debut, from an affecting and wonderfully original new literary voice Incredibly poignant . . . Rachel Khong s first novel sneaks up on you just like life . . . and heartbreak. And love. Miranda July

A few days after Christmas in a small suburb outside of L.A., pairs of a man's pants hang from the trees. The pants belong to Howard Young, a prominent history professor, recently diagnosed with Alzheimer s disease. Howard s wife, Annie, summons their daughter, Ruth. Freshly disengaged from her fiance and still broken up about it, feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, thirty-year- old Ruth quits her job, and arrives home to find her parents situation worse than she'd realized. Her father is erratically lucid and her mother, a devoted and creative cook, sees the sources of memory loss in every pot and pan. But as Howard s condition intensifies, the comedy in Ruth s situation takes hold, gently transforming her grief. She throws herself into caretaking: cooking dementia-fighting meals (a feast of jellyfish ), researching supplements, anything to reignite her father s once-notable memory. And when the university finally lets Howard go, Ruth and one of her father s handsome former students take their efforts to help Howard one step too far.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 a one s footing in this life."