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Combining the pithy observation of Dept. of Speculation and the broken-hearted compassion of All My Puny Sorrows: an original, funny and tender novel, published by Scribner , about a family dealing with dementia.

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An O: the Oprah Magazine Best Book of 2017

´Khong is a magician ... Brilliant ´ Lauren Groff , author of Fates and Furies

´Khong´s first novel sneaks up on you - just like life, illness and heartbreak. And love. A million small, human and often deeply funny details gather force to tell a tale that is ultimately, incredibly poignant´ Miranda July , author of The First Bad Man

Ruth is thirty 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 a woman at a crossroads, 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 man her father has become.

´A beautifully written debut, dreamy and funny ... flawless ´ Independent

´ Biting, funny and poignant and makes you wish you´d thought of writing it first´ Stylist, ´50 Unmissable Books´

´ Like a chain of fairy lights in the darkness ´ Financial Times

´One of the funniest elegiac novels I have ever read´ David Leavitt , author of The Lost Language of Cranes

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´Brilliant disquisition on family, relationships and adulthood, told in prose that is so startling in its spare beauty that I found mysef thinking about Khong´s turns of phrase for days after I finished reading.´ Doree Shafrir, New York Review of Books

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Khong, Rachel
Rachel Khong studied at Yale and the University of Florida. Her fiction and non-fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, The Believer, Pitchfork and Village Voice. In 2013, she was named one of Refinery29´s 30 under 30. Goodbye, Vitamin is her first novel.

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