PositiveThe Los Angeles Review of Books...a story in which desires and projections bump up uncomfortably and often comically close with the truth ... If some of the details in Goodbye, Vitamin are slightly off perhaps this is because the entire book, and not just the passages about Ruth’s father, are tinged with a kind of playful absurdity that places it just perceptibly shy of realism ...the characters, as well as the novel itself, have become infused with a kind of Alzheimer’s logic ... The universe that Khong sets forth for us is a snow globe that she can shake any time she wants in order to evade any kind of real cogency or weight ...while the memory loss in Goodbye, Vitamin is a vehicle for humor and play, it ultimately is also a means of expressing absolute tenderhearted emotion.
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