Goodbye, Vitamin

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. Freshly disengaged from her fiance 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. Her father, a prominent history professor, is losing his memory and is only erratically lucid. Ruth´s mother, meanwhile, is lucidly erratic. But as Ruth´s father´s condition intensifies, the comedy in her situation takes hold, gently transforming her all her grief...