RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewIt doesn’t exactly seem like a recipe for a darkly comic yet heartfelt novel, but that’s exactly what Goodbye, Vitamin is. Told in a diary format over the year that Ruth spends at home, Goodbye, Vitamin is a quietly brilliant disquisition on family, relationships and adulthood, told in prose that is so startling in its spare beauty that I found myself thinking about Khong’s turns of phrase for days after I’d finished reading ... It’s refreshing to read female authors — among them, Jami Attenberg, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Marcy Dermansky — who are subverting the longstanding convention of adult men who feel stuck, who are emotionally unavailable, who find adulthood just out of reach, and who are often 'saved' by a woman who has her life together. They, and now Khong, are showing that women can be screw-ups too.
