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A review by nono_dont
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
5.0
Wow wow wow — tender and inexplicably wonderful. I very much will be thinking about Ruth and her words for a long time. I love every ounce of this (‘: I can likely put my thoughts together better if I wrote this the morning after, but I want to express my awe in this immediate moment upon closing the book.
I am struck, too, by the amount of Chance I’ve encountered when reading this story. I currently live and reside where Ruth does, so her familiar revisits and childhood memories are paralleling my own experiences now in this new city. But rather than the nostalgia, I experience the magic of first-times with all of the landmark places of the small town she speaks about. I can’t help but to feel enchanted with life and knowing this novel was brought to me in this time and place of my own little world. I also know too well her family dynamics as though they are my own. Rachel Khong sew words together that resonate and I couldn’t put this down yet still found myself wanting to slow down when I was more halfway through because I just didn’t want it to end. I wanted to melt with every thought and work through every pain she dived into.
Very grateful for this novel.
I am struck, too, by the amount of Chance I’ve encountered when reading this story. I currently live and reside where Ruth does, so her familiar revisits and childhood memories are paralleling my own experiences now in this new city. But rather than the nostalgia, I experience the magic of first-times with all of the landmark places of the small town she speaks about. I can’t help but to feel enchanted with life and knowing this novel was brought to me in this time and place of my own little world. I also know too well her family dynamics as though they are my own. Rachel Khong sew words together that resonate and I couldn’t put this down yet still found myself wanting to slow down when I was more halfway through because I just didn’t want it to end. I wanted to melt with every thought and work through every pain she dived into.
Very grateful for this novel.