Named a PopSugar summer read BuzzFeed, '22 Exciting New Books You Need To Read This Summer' Named one of Coastal Living 's “50 Books of Summer” Elle, 'The 24 Best Books to Read This Summer' Named a Goop summer read Bustle, ' 29 New Fiction Books To Read This Summer' Vanity Fair, 'What to Read Right Now' 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 'A beautifully written debut, dreamy and funny. 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. At Christmas, her mother begs her to stay on and help. 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. Brilliant ' Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies ‘Khong’s first novel sneaks up on you – just like life, illness and heartbreak. An O: the Oprah Magazine and Best Book of 2017 'Khong is a magician.

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