![]() The students know that the class is not for credit, but Ruth’s father does not. They lie and tell him that the department has asked him to lead the course, and he agrees. Ruth struggles to find her place at home until her father’s former teaching assistant contacts her, suggesting they round up some students so that her father can teach a class on California’s history. At Christmas, their family is down one child Ruth’s brother won’t come home, because he hasn’t forgiven their father for years of pain caused by infidelity and drinking. Ruth, less a fiancé, leaves her job and moves back home to help take care of her father, who is experiencing dementia and has lost his job as a professor at a university. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rachel Khong’s debut novel, Goodbye, Vitamin, is a story about subtraction. ![]()
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