Goodbye, Vitamin: A Novel

"Rachel Khong’s debut novel is a book I know I will read over and over again. It’s a stunning and hilarious portrait of Ruth, a woman who has to reset her expectations of reality when she moves home with her parents. She’s looking to take a break from a flailing career and spend more time with her father, who has Alzheimer’s. Told through diary entries, Khong’s prose is crisp and never earnest. She writes tenderly about the moment when the parent-child relationship shifts, and Ruth is forced to puzzle over the secrets her father has kept and determine how best to help him when he’s most vulnerable."