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020    9781250109163 
041    eng 
082 00 813/.6|223 
092 0  Roman|bengelska 
100 1  Khong, Rachel 
245 10 Goodbye, Vitamin /|cRachel Khong 
250    First edition 
264    |bHenry Holt & Company,|c2017 
300    208 s. ;|c2.3 cm 
520    ""Incredibly poignant ... Rachel Khong's first novel 
       sneaks up on you -- just like life ... and heartbreak. And
       love."--Miranda July A few days after Christmas in a small
       suburb outside of L.A., pairs of a man's pants hang from 
       the trees. The pants belong to Howard Young, a prominent 
       history professor, recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's 
       disease. Howard's wife, Annie, summons their daughter, 
       Ruth. Freshly disengaged from her fiance and still broken 
       up about it, feeling that life has not turned out quite 
       the way she planned, thirty-year- old Ruth quits her job, 
       and arrives home to find her parents' situation worse than
       she'd realized. Her father is erratically lucid and her 
       mother, a devoted and creative cook, sees the sources of 
       memory loss in every pot and pan. But as Howard's 
       condition intensifies, the comedy in Ruth's situation 
       takes hold, gently transforming her grief. She throws 
       herself into caretaking: cooking dementia-fighting meals 
       (a feast of jellyfish!), researching supplements, anything
       to reignite her father's once-notable memory. And when the
       university finally lets Howard go, Ruth and one of her 
       father's handsome former students take their efforts to 
       help Howard one step too far. 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 a one's footing in 
       this life"--|cProvided by publisher 
650  0 Adult children|xFamily relationships|vFiction 
650  7 Adult children|xFamily relationships.|2fast 
655  7 Domestic fiction.|2fast 
655  7 Fiction.|2fast 
655  7 Domestic fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Romaner |2saogf  
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