![]() ![]() As Howard’s memory deteriorates, Ruth trawls through her father’s records of their relationship in an effort to remember her childhood and come to terms with the cracks in her parents’ marriage. Her mother begs Ruth to stay for a year to help care for him, despite Howard’s insistence that he’s absolutely fine. Her father Howard, a prominent history professor beloved by his students, has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and is only erratically lucid. Heartbroken and directionless, Ruth quits her job and heads home to spend the holidays with her parents. Thirty-year-old Ruth Young has been left by her fiancé for another woman. This small miracle of a novel about family, friendship and memory is equal parts laugh-out-loud hilarious and acutely moving. ![]() I doubt I will enjoy another book in 2017 more than Rachel Khong’s Goodbye, Vitamin. ![]()
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