*** Winner selected! Congratulations to Juli in Los Angeles! ***
Goodbye, Vitamin is one of those novels that sound super depressing when you read the back cover — but then ends up being funny and full of joy and love when you start turning the pages!
Which is to say — I realize the premise of Goodbye, Vitamin sounds bleak. Ruth, a 30-year-old who just got dumped by her fiance and feels lost and sad, moves back in with her parents in Los Angeles — partly to help her father who has Alzheimer’s, partly just to escape her life.
There’s wry humor, though, even in the melancholy moments. To help her dad cope with no longer being able to continue his job as a professor, Ruth conspires with one of his former students to organize a fake class. Through mischief, hilarious subversion, and a hell of a lot of maneuvering, and the pair manage to make the charade work — until they get busted.
In the end this novel is about family and connection — what keeps people together, how we’re able to forgive, why we make sacrifices for each other, what makes it all worth it.
Goodbye, Vitamin just came out in paperback — and thanks to Picador, I’m giving away a copy to one of my readers! All current email subscribers will be automatically entered to win the copy. Subscribe now if you’re not yet getting my occasional newsletters.
For a second chance to win, comment on this post below, naming your favorite vitamin. The giveaway closes July 31, 2018 at 11:59 pm PST. US addresses only.