{"product_id":"9781471147234-secondhand-goodbye-vitamin","title":"Goodbye, Vitamin","description":"'A beautifully written coming-of-age debut,  dreamy and funny  ...  flawless '  Independent  'Khong is a magician...  Brilliant '  Lauren Groff , author of  Fates and Furies  'Khong's first novel sneaks up on you - just like life, illness and heartbreak. And love. A million small,  human and often deeply funny  details gather force to tell a tale that is ultimately, incredibly poignant'  Miranda July , author of  The First Bad Man Ruth  is thirty and her life is falling apart: she and her fiance are moving house, but he's moving  out  to live with another woman; her career is going nowhere; and then she learns that her father, a history professor beloved by his students, has Alzheimer's. At Christmas, her mother begs her to stay on and help. For a year.  Goodbye, Vitamin  is the wry, beautifully observed story of a woman at a crossroads, as  Ruth  and her friends attempt to shore up her father's career; she and her mother obsess over the ambiguous health benefits - in the absence of a cure - of dried jellyfish supplements and vitamin pills; and they all try to forge a new relationship with the brilliant, childlike, irascible man her father has become.  ?' Biting, funny and poignant  and makes you wish you'd thought of writing it first'  Stylist,  '50 Unmissable Books'  'A deceptively complex tale of dementia and its impact on a family ...  Like a chain of fairy lights in the darkness '  Financial Times  'One of the  funniest elegiac novels  I have ever read'  David Leavitt , author of  The Lost Language of Cranes","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48888963629275,"sku":"9781471147234-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/fd98206f-eaf3-46b2-8b58-c8d43535bb49.jpg?v=1781791457","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781471147234-secondhand-goodbye-vitamin","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}