Goodbye vitamin novel7/1/2023 ![]() At her mother Annie’s urging, Ruth decides to live at home for the next year to support her father and alleviate some of her mother’s responsibility for his care. ![]() Feeling lost, Ruth returns home and finds that her father, Howard, has discovered he has Alzheimer’s disease after a series of escalating memory-lapse incidents. Normally, she spends the Christmas season with her fiancé, Joel, and his family, but Joel recently ended their engagement after he revealed that he was cheating on her. Ruth Young, 30, is home for the holidays for the first time in a few years. Goodbye, Vitamin is written as a series of diary entries over the course of a year, beginning at Christmastime. This study guide refers to the 2017 Picador paperback edition. ![]() It was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and won the California Book Award for First Fiction. ![]() Published in 2017, Goodbye, Vitamin received positive reviews and was named one of the year’s best books by outlets like NPR, Vogue, and O, The Oprah Magazine. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |