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Rachel Khong
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Goodbye, Vitamin |
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English |
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Paperback |
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400 |
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2017-06-01 |
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1471159485 |
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Scribner UK |
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1.11 pounds |
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Product Description
Hello, ageing parents. Hello, dementia. Goodbye, vitamin...Combining the pithy observation of Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation and the broken-hearted compassion of Miriam Toews' All My Puny Sorrows, a funny and tender debut novel about a family dealing with dementia. Ruth is turning thirty and her life is falling apart: she and her fiance are moving house, but it appears he's moving out to live with the other woman he's been seeing; her career is going nowhere; and then she learns that her father, a history professor beloved by his students, has dementia. At Christmas, her mother begs her to stay on and help - for a year. Goodbye, Vitamin is the wry, beautifully observed diary of that year, as Ruth and her friends engineer a fake course for her father to teach, 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.
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