Dear rachel, im looking forward to reading your novel, goodbye, vitamin, when its released in july. Jan 02, 2018 rachel khongs debut novel goodbye, vitamin is a beautiful story about thirtyyear old ruths year spent caring for her father, a former history professor with alzheimers. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. 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. I have enormous admiration for goodbye, vitamin, but more than that, i enjoyed the hell out of reading it. Fiction literature humor fiction publication details.
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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. Straight up loved rachel khongs novel goodbye, vitamin. Every page was packed with wonders maria semple at thirtytwo, faith frankel has returned to her suburban hometown whe. It was published in july of 2017 by henry holt and co. Goodbye, vitaminby rachel khong by daily books overdrive. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Named a best book of the year by npr, o, the oprah magazine, vogue, san francisco chronicle, esquire, huffington post, n. Thirtyyearold ruth young has been left by her fiance for another woman. Goodbye, vitamin is the fiction, thriller, relationship, literature and humour novel which describes the story of a young woman who struggles in her personal life. You know it is the kind of book you will come back to, if you, like i did, highlight all the hilarious bits and the sweet stuff too. Book giveaway for goodbye, vitamin by rachel khong jul 07jul.
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