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Author Khong, Rachel, 1985- author.

Title Goodbye, vitamin : a novel / Rachel Khong.

Publication Info. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2017.
©2017

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F KHONG, R.    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION KHONG    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  F KHONG, R.    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  F KHONG, R.    Storage
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  FIC KHONG    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  FICTION KHONG    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  FICTION KHONG    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F KHONG RACHEL    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FICTION KHONG    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  F KHONG    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 196 pages ; 22 cm
Summary ""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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Adult children -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
FICTION -- Literary.
FICTION -- Contemporary Women.
Adult children -- Family relationships. (OCoLC)fst00797230
Genre/Form Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Domestic fiction.
ISBN 9781250109163 hardcover
1250109167 hardcover
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