Goodbye, vitamin, Rachel Khong

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Summary: Ruth is thirty and her life is falling apart. She and her fiance are moving house, but he's moving out to live with another woman, her career is going nowhere and then she learns that her father, a history professor beloved by his students, has Alzheimer's. At Christmas, her mother begs her to stay on and help, for a year. As Ruth and her friends attempt to shore up her father's career, she and her mother obsess over the ambiguous health benefits, in the absence of a cure, of dried jellyfish supplements and vitamin pills. In the process they all try to forge a new relationship with the brilliant, childlike, irascible man her father has become

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Summary: Ruth is thirty and her life is falling apart. She and her fiance are moving house, but he's moving out to live with another woman, her career is going nowhere and then she learns that her father, a history professor beloved by his students, has Alzheimer's. At Christmas, her mother begs her to stay on and help, for a year. As Ruth and her friends attempt to shore up her father's career, she and her mother obsess over the ambiguous health benefits, in the absence of a cure, of dried jellyfish supplements and vitamin pills. In the process they all try to forge a new relationship with the brilliant, childlike, irascible man her father has become