Her life at a crossroads, a young woman goes home again in this funny
and inescapably moving debut from a wonderfully original new literary
voice.
Freshly disengaged from her fiance and feeling that life has not turned
out quite the way she planned, 30-year-old Ruth quits her job, leaves
town, and arrives at her parents' home to find that situation more
complicated than she'd realized. Her father, a prominent history
professor, is losing his memory and is only erratically lucid. Ruth's
mother, meanwhile, is lucidly erratic. But as Ruth's father's condition
intensifies, the comedy in her situation takes hold, gently transforming
all her grief.
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 one's footing in this life.