The Audacious Book Club: Real Americans

Our May Selection

Early in Goodbye Vitamin, Rachel Khong’s debut novel, the protagonist, Ruth, reeling from a breakup, goes home for Christmas and is faced with a dilemma: her father has just been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and her mother, herself reeling from this news, asks her to stay home for a year. Ruth first realizes both how absurd, and how necessary, the reques…