I have enormous admiration for Goodbye, Vitamin, but more than that, I enjoyed the hell out of reading it.' -Justin Taylor, author of Flings ' Goodbye, Vitamin is funny, sweet, and thoroughly modern, a story of a family with a fresh energy that keeps me hooked. And love.' -Miranda July 'Half stand-up comic, half a seismographer of the human heart, Khong writes with vulnerability and penetrating insight, and with a gentle humor that moves you not only to care for her characters, but also to care more fervently for the people in your life.' -Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine 'Equal parts clever and tender, Khong's Vitamin is a moving meditation on what it means to patient, forgiving, and human.' -Karolina Waclawiak, author of The Invaders and How to Get into the Twin Palms 'I don't know how she did it, but Rachel Khong has breathed fresh life into the slacker comedy, the family drama, and the campus novel-in wry, swift, spiky, heartfelt prose that is a joy to read.

Rachel Khong's first novel sneaks up on you - just like life. 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. But as Ruth's father's condition intensifies, the comedy in her situation takes hold, gently transforming her all her grief. Ruth's mother, meanwhile, is lucidly erratic. Her father, a prominent history professor, is losing his memory and is only erratically lucid. Freshly disengaged from her fiancé and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, thirty-year-old Ruth quits her job, leaves town and arrives at her parents' home to find that situation more complicated than she'd realized. Kudos for this delectable take on familial devotion and dementia.'- NPR 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. told in prose that is so startling in its spare beauty that I found myself thinking about Khong's turns of phrase for days after I finished reading.'- Doree Shafrir, The New York Times Book Review 'One of those rare books that is both devastating and light-hearted, heartful and joyful. Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, San Francisco Chronicl e, Esquire, Huffington Post, Nylon, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Booklist, and The Independent Winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for First Fiction 'A quietly brilliant disquisition.

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