Goodbye, Vitamin picks up the day after Christmas, when Ruth is home with her parents. Everything she thought she could depend on has been upended. If that weren’t enough, she’s dispassionate about her job and her father, Howard, has Alzheimer’s disease, which is getting progressively worse. Her fiancé broke up with her on the day she thought they were moving in together. When we meet our narrator Ruth, she’s in her thirties and the life she envisioned for herself is in shambles. It’s about the memories that follow and haunt you, and the ones that only leave behind traces of themselves, their negative space haunting you all the same. It’s a book about the absence of reliable memories, the absence of people you thought were permanent, and the absence of self-understanding. Absence populates Rachel Khong’s stellar debut novel, Goodbye, Vitamin.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |