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008			160923s2017 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2016039559
020			_a9781250109163 (hardcover)
020			_z9781250109156 (electronic book)
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050	0	0	_aPS 3611 _b.H66G66 2017
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100	1		_aKhong, Rachel, _d1985- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aGoodbye, vitamin : _ba novel / _cRachel Khong.
250			_aFirst edition.
300			_a196 pages ; _c22 cm
520			_a""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"--
650		0	_aAdult children _xFamily relationships _vFiction.
650		7	_aFICTION / Literary. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aFICTION / Contemporary Women. _2bisacsh
655		0	_aDomestic fiction.
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