Goodbye, vitamin, approaches its primary narrative with such focus, gentleness, and humor. Silicon valley reads is an annual community program that selects books focused on a contemporary theme and offers free events throughout santa clara county to engage the public in reading, thinking and discussing the topic. Rachel khong was the managing editor then executive editor of lucky peach magazine. New romance books for adults the seattle public library. The mechanics and metaphysics of recollection are also an obsessive preoccupation for ruth, the narrator of khongs wonderful first novel, goodbye, vitamin. Goodbye, vitamin reads like a random stream of comedy sketches, lacking any kind of focus or direction. Goodbye, vitamin by rachel khong overdrive rakuten. The morning news tournament of books presented by field. Goodbye vitamin is material for another grueling exploration of loss, and yet, against all odds, ms. Rachel khong finds the humor in loss in her debut novel. 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 her father, whos recently been diagnosed with. 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. We get random trivia in the middle of chapters about everything from whales to california trees to what contains aluminium to.
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 the news that he. Reading goodbye, vitamin henry holt by rachel khong, an exeditor of the cult cooking magazine lucky peach, is like tasting an entirely new flavor. The complete guide to vitamins, herbs, and supplements. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. Ruth, the rudderless 30yearold of this foodobsessed diaristic novel, would make an excellent dinner companion. Khong has produced a book thats whimsical and funny. Popular romance books for adults the seattle public library. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read goodbye, vitamin.
Praise for goodbye, vitamin 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. Rachel khongs debut novel, goodbye, vitamin, is a story about subtraction. Goodbye, vitamin npr coverage of goodbye, vitamin by rachel khong. 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. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The paperback of the the complete guide to vitamins, herbs, and supplements. It doesnt exactly seem like a recipe for a darkly comic yet heartfelt novel, but thats exactly what goodbye, vitamin is. 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. The holistic path to good health by winifred conkling, david y. If the zombie round were held today, those books would return as our incorporeal codices.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading goodbye, vitamin. For fans of mostly dead things and goodbye vitamin, a warm and witty debut novel about love, loss, and a. Straight up loved rachel khongs novel goodbye, vitamin. This is because the author, like her guiding spirit, lorrie moore, has a love for the ridiculous in the mundane. Goodbye, vitamin pilots through the loss, love, and absurdity of finding ones footing in. 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. Idaho does no such thing, and after about 20 pages of this epic mysteryfamily dramatale of redemption, i knew my time at the bed and breakfast was done and i had to rough it in the woods. Explore staff picks and find out how to download ebooks and other media. 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. 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 the news that he wasnt moving. 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. Sadly, despite davids impassioned defense, we say so long and farewell to goodbye, vitamin. Former lucky peach executive editor khong all about eggs. Goodbye, vitamin by rachel khong book of the month.
The following is from rachel khongs novel, goodbye, vitamin. Theres a true intellectual joy to reading these books back to. With a title like goodbye, vitamin, humor is to be expected. Reviews used words like quirky npr and darkly funny popsugar. Told in a diary format over the year that ruth spends at home. For fans of mostly dead things and goodbye vitamin, a warm and witty. But now that she, her mamm, and her mammi have moved to wells landing, shes having a hard time fitting in. 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. Herbs, and supplements the holistic path to good health. A darkly comic novel about turning 30 without growing up.
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