Goodbye vitamin by rachel khong rachel khong s first novel is a heartwarming account of family devotion and dementia which sounds sickly, but her offbeat sensibility and flair. I look forward to reading more from this author and seeing what she releases next. Jun 01, 2017 goodbye, vitamin by rachel khong is a touching gem of a novel about family, friendship, and alzheimers disease with an added touch of laughter, sadness, and love. Part diary, part letter, part enthralling lecture, rachel khongs debut novel goodbye, vitamin invites us into a year of ruth youngs life as she searches for beauty, humor, and absurdity in unexpected situations. Goodbye, vitamin is poignant and shorti actually felt it was a little too short. The novel goodbye, vitamin builds with humor, with gusto and with such deceptive lightness that the reader wonders, at its devastating end, how in the world the debut author rachel khong managed to pull it off so beautifully. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read goodbye, vitamin. Rachel khong studied at yale and the university of florida.
I was so reluctant to read this, since my mom was diagnosed with alzheimers. She has a few years of professional and life experience under her. Goodbye, vitamin is a generous and funny novel about love, family, and finding your way. I am a big fan of simple and minimalistic writing styles, so i thoroughly enjoyed rachel khongs writing and truly noteworthy storytelling. Rachel khongs goodbye, vitamin is the best of these debuts, conversational and light in tone, but heartbreakingly cleareyed as well. Ruth youngs life is falling apart, her fiance just left her for another woman, and her career is going absolutely nowhere.
Brilliant lauren groff, author of fates and furies khongs first novel sneaks up on you. The only possible answer is this, that khong is a magician, and that we are lucky to fall under her spell at the. Writing down food was a way to turn my life into facts. From 2011 to 2016, she was the managing editor then executive editor of lucky peach magazine.
You know it is the kind of book you will come back to, if you, like i did, highlight all the hilarious bits. Goodbye, vitamin by rachel khong and childhood food memories. Goodbye, vitamin by rachel khong, 9781471159480, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. The result is a lovely novel that tackles some difficult subjects with grace and humour. Rachel khong s first novel sneaks up on you just like life. Rachel khongs novel, written in diary format, follows the eccentric thoughts of newly single ruth over the course of 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 fathers career. Due to covid19 safety precautions, our warehouse team is operating slower than usual. Jul 10, 2017 in 2008, writer rachel khong began keeping a food log, a list of every meal she consumed.
Jul 28, 2017 goodbye, vitamin by rachel khong 196 pp. Goodbye, vitamin is a darkly funny debut novel about love, loss, and heartbreak. Rachel khongs website about this book freshly disengaged from her fiance and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, 30yearold ruth quits her job, leaves town and arrives at her parents home to find that situation more complicated than shed realized. As professor howard young begins losing himself to alzheimers, his family must cope with their conflicted feelings of anger, fear, and love. Goodbye, vitamin is the wry, beautifully observed story of a wo. Goodbye, vitamin npr coverage of goodbye, vitamin by rachel khong. A slim but powerful volume, goodbye, vitamin is written in journallike dispatches as ruth watches her father, howard, slide down the tunnel of alzheimers disease. Named a best book of the year by npr, o, the oprah magazine, vogue, san francisco chronicle. Miranda july the novel goodbye, vitamin builds with humor, with gusto and with such deceptive lightness that the reader wonders, at its devastating end, how in the world the debut author rachel khong managed to pull it off so beautifully. What it felt like was that khong ran out of steam and the book petered out. Kudos for this delectable take on familial devotion and dementia. Goodbye, vitamin goodbye, vitamin audiobook, by rachel khong.
Its ironic how a book told so simply could pack so much beauty and emotion into its words, but rachel khongs goodbye, vitamin did just that. Ruth, a 30yearold sonographer whose own path was derailed by an unexpected breakup, moves home for a year to help care for howard. Jul, 2017 goodbye, vitamin by rachel khong debut publisher. When the novel opens in december, ruth has recently separated from her unfaithful fiance. A darkly comic novel about turning 30 without growing up. We are limiting the number of titles available and this book cannot ship this month. Jun 01, 2017 buy goodbye, vitamin second impression by khong, rachel isbn. Former lucky peach executive editor khong all about eggs. Her first novel, goodbye, vitamin, received best book of the year honors from npr, o, the oprah magazine. Jul 20, 2017 the following is from rachel khongs novel, goodbye, vitamin. Everything we know about the worlds most important food, 2017 whisks up a heartfelt family dramedy in a debut novel that ruminates on love, loss, and memory.
And then i picked up rachel khongs debut novel, goodbye, vitamin, which promptly changed my opinion. After her fathers alzheimers disease progresses, 30year old. Freshly disengaged from her fiance and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, thirtyyearold ruth quits her job, leaves town and arrives at her parents home to find that situation more complicated than shed realized. Goodbye vitamin by rachel khong rachel khongs first novel is a heartwarming account of family devotion and dementia which sounds sickly, but her offbeat sensibility and flair. Rachel khong goodbye, vitamin read and download epub, pdf. At once gutwrenching and deeply soothing, this bittersweet first novel uses an anthropological focus on eating to tell the story of 30yearold ruth and the year she moves back home to care for. And yet in her first novel, goodbye, vitamin, san francisco author rachel khong has managed to create an alzheimers novel that is heartbreaking but also funny, offering a fresh take on.
Rachel khong is a malaysianamerican writer and editor who lives and works in san francisco. Reading goodbye, vitamin henry holt by rachel khong, an exeditor of the cult cooking magazine lucky peach, is like tasting an entirely new flavor. Kudos for this delectable take on familial devotion. A beautifully written comingofage debut, dreamy and funny.
Fiction, family relationships, adult children, alzheimers disease, patients, literary, contemporary women. A novel having great arrangement in word and layout, so you will not really feel uninterested in reading. Shes only just beginning to tour with the book, but shes had some eyeopening. But this book tugged at my heart strings, and was a beautiful, witty, humorous, uplifting journey. July 11, 2017 former lucky peach executive editor khong all about eggs. Told in a diary format over the year that ruth spends at home, goodbye, vitamin is a quietly brilliant disquisition on family, relationships and adulthood, told in prose that is so startling in its spare beauty that i. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in american short fiction, the believer, pitchfork, village voice and lucky peach. It was a book of the month pick, and o, the oprah magazine, entertainment weekly, and booklist all named it a best book of the year. If i had all the facts, i could keep them straight. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Popsugar 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 ones footing in this life. Straight up loved rachel khongs novel goodbye, vitamin. Rachel khongs first novel sneaks up on you just like life. Goodbye, vitamin by rachel khong overdrive rakuten.
Khong manages to imbue seemingly mundane topics with charm and pathos through her attentive, humorous and personable writing spectator a beautifully written comingofage debut, dreamy and funny. Goodbye, vitamin by rachel khong book of the month. Goodbye, vitamin named a best book of the year by npr, o, the oprah magazine, vogue, san francisco chronicle, esquire, huffington post, nylon, entertainment weekly, buzzfeed, booklist, and the independentwinner of the california book award for first fictionlos angeles times book prize finalist for first fictiona quietly brilliant disquisition. Its ironic how a book told so simply could pack so much beauty and emotion into its words, but rachel khong s goodbye, vitamin did just that.
Even though the subject matter is grave, the book is not overly weighed down with sadness or. Rachel khong author rachel khong grew up in southern california and holds degrees from yale university and the university of florida. Im going to be honest and say that blurb doesnt at all do goodbye, vitamin justice. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Jul 11, 2017 rachel khongs first novel sneaks up on you. Granted, khong, who also has written a nonfiction book and for several years was the managing editor of the magazine lucky peach, is not exactly a freshly minted mfa student. In 20, she was named one of refinery29s 30 under 30. Named a best book of the year by npr, o, the oprah magazine. Straight up loved rachel khong s novel goodbye, vitamin.
Rachel khongs goodbye vitamin isnt some alzheimers memoir and talking about foods that remind you of childhood. The mechanics and metaphysics of recollection are also an obsessive preoccupation for ruth, the narrator of khongs wonderful first novel, goodbye, vitamin. The following is from rachel khongs novel, goodbye, vitamin. Join us at first draft book bar the wine and beer bar inside changing hands phoenix for a discussion of this months pick, rachel khongs moving debut goodbye, vitamin.
Jul 12, 2017 khong will read from goodbye, vitamin at the magers and quinn bookstore in minneapolis at 7 p. With a title like goodbye, vitamin, humor is to be expected. When a stranger calls to say hes found her fathers newly labeled pants and shirts hanging from trees up and down the road, ruth realizes she. Goodbye, vitamin by rachel khong book show27746288 goodbye vitamin. Stop by changing hands phoenix or tempe or order online by clicking add to cart below to get your copy of goodbye, vitamin for 20% off. I think khongs point was that ruth was reforming her connections to her family and to what life could be as she wroteas ruth actually engaged with them, she spent less time writing. Rachel khong goodbye, vitamin read and download epub, pdf, fb2. Rachel khong was the managing editor then executive editor of lucky peach magazine. You know it is the kind of book you will come back to, if you, like i did, highlight all the hilarious bits and the sweet stuff too.
Goodbye, vitamin book by rachel khong official publisher. But id also like to reassure you that rachel khong knows what shes doing, and that i am deeply in love with this book, and hope you will be, too. Aug 06, 2017 open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Get it today with same day delivery, order pickup or drive up. Miranda july the novel goodbye,vitamin builds with humor, with gusto and with such deceptive lightness that the reader wonders, at its devastating end, how in the world the debut author rachel khong managed to pull it off so beautifully. Brilliant lauren groff, author of fates and furies.
Goodbye, vitamin book by rachel khong official publisher page. This is a somewhat quirky, slightly odd book that i found quite movingin fact, i had to do the no, im not crying, im just rubbing my eyes thing more than a few times on my plane ride this morning. Buy goodbye, vitamin by rachel khong from waterstones today. Quick take as it dazzles and delights, as it compels.
Everything we know about the worlds most important food, 2017 whisks up a heartfelt family dramedy in a debut novel that ruminates on love, loss, and memory last june, ruth young was engaged and packing to move to a spacious apartment in bernal heights, san francisco, when her fiance, joel, broke. Goodbye, vitamin, received best book of the year honors from npr, o. Rachel khong grew up in southern california and holds degrees from yale university and the university of florida. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading goodbye, vitamin. Rachel khong goodbye, vitamin read and download epub. Ive always been a fan of a certain kind of summer read. Goodbye, vitamin by rachel khong and childhood food. Goodbye, vitamin by rachel khong overdrive rakuten overdrive.